Mayaro virus infection, the next epidemic wave after Zika? Evolutionary and structural analysis

Eleonora Cella¹, Marta Giovanetti², Teresa Milano³, Marta Fogolari⁴, Francesco Garilli⁵, Ivailo Alexiev⁶, Riccardo Bazzardi⁷, Marco Salemi⁸, Luiz Carlos Junior Alcantara⁹, Silvia Angeletti⁴, Stefano Pascarella³, Massimo Ciccozzi^4
1 Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University; Unit of Clinical Laboratory Science, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy
² Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil; University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy
³ Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche ‟A. Rossi Fanelli", Università La Sapienza, 00185 Roma, Italy
⁴ Unit of Clinical Laboratory Science, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy
⁵ Department of Medicine, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Rome, Italy
⁶ National Reference Laboratory of HIV, National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria
⁷ Department of Food Hygiene, Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Sardinia, Sassari, Italy
⁸ Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
⁹ Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Correspondence Address:
Massimo Ciccozzi
Unit of Clinical Laboratory Science, University Campus BioMedico of Rome, Via Alvaro del Portillo, 200, 00125 Rome
Italy
Silvia Angeletti
Unit of Clinical Laboratory Science, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Via Alvaro del Portillo, 200, 00125 Rome
Italy

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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