Sasha Azar
@azarsr.bsky.social
Scientist at the Houston Methodist Research Institute. Interests include viruses, arthropods, evolution, ecology and emergence. All views expressed here are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer.
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We celebrated the 100th anniversary of HR Carter's seminal lecture on YF's potential threat to Asia-Pacific area with a perspective to draw attention to the potential reasons why YF epidemics have not occurred in urban centers in the region. @sbvirologia.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
We celebrated the 100th anniversary of HR Carter's seminal lecture on YF's potential threat to Asia-Pacific area with a perspective to draw attention to the potential reasons why YF epidemics have not occurred in urban centers in the region. @sbvirologia.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social
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We detected yellow fever virus in Haemagogus mosquitoes collected in 2022 in an Amazon rainforest bordering Manaus, Brazil. The viral genome sequence occupied a basal position within the South American I genotype 1E lineage.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/31…
March 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
We detected yellow fever virus in Haemagogus mosquitoes collected in 2022 in an Amazon rainforest bordering Manaus, Brazil. The viral genome sequence occupied a basal position within the South American I genotype 1E lineage.
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One positive thing that happend this otherwise challenging week is that this paper is FINALLY out. Why are Culex tarsalis so good at spreading West Nile virus? We learned a lot by doing this study. A testament to the tenacity and creativity of Dr. Emily Fitzmeyer.
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
A single-cell atlas of the Culex tarsalis midgut during West Nile virus infection
Author summary West Nile virus is the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in N. America. Cx. tarsalis is a highly competent vector of WNV that plays a central role in the transmission and maintena...
journals.plos.org
January 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
One positive thing that happend this otherwise challenging week is that this paper is FINALLY out. Why are Culex tarsalis so good at spreading West Nile virus? We learned a lot by doing this study. A testament to the tenacity and creativity of Dr. Emily Fitzmeyer.
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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Exited to see my talented student's review of her dissertation work out. www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17.... @rossilab.bsky.social @utmbnews.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social
Bussuquara Virus: A Neglected Orthoflavivirus with Broad Distribution Across Central and South America and the Caribbean
Bussuquara virus (BSQV) was first discovered in the Brazilian Amazon in 1956. It is an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) in the genus Orthoflavivirus, family Flaviviridae. Since its discovery, BSQV ha...
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January 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Exited to see my talented student's review of her dissertation work out. www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/17.... @rossilab.bsky.social @utmbnews.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social
Even at “just” 7.0 logs per mL, a 300mL glass of milk with breakfast would have over a billion infectious particles. Call me crazy, but a breakfast of champions that is NOT.
7 logs per mL is ALOT of virus. Pls do not drink raw milk.
All milk sampling to date routinely shows 7+ logs of infectious virus per mL in samples from infected cows. Very glad this raw milk was recalled because I cannot emphasize enough what a bad idea it is for people to drink high titer H5N1.
November 25, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Even at “just” 7.0 logs per mL, a 300mL glass of milk with breakfast would have over a billion infectious particles. Call me crazy, but a breakfast of champions that is NOT.
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our collaborative research with the Hanley, Rossi @rossilab.bsky.social, Azar @azarsr.bsky.social and Cecilia labs highlighting the importance of incorporating individual-level heterogeneity of vector biting in arbovirus transmission models just dropped. www.cell.com/iscience/ful....
Aedes albopictus is not an arbovirus aficionado when feeding on cynomolgus macaques or squirrel monkeys
Natural sciences; Biological sciences; Microbiology; Virology; Systems biology.
www.cell.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:41 PM
our collaborative research with the Hanley, Rossi @rossilab.bsky.social, Azar @azarsr.bsky.social and Cecilia labs highlighting the importance of incorporating individual-level heterogeneity of vector biting in arbovirus transmission models just dropped. www.cell.com/iscience/ful....
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We’re looking for an assistant professor in urban entomology at New Mexico State University: careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/assista...
Please apply if interested and do share! 🐜🪰🪳🦟🦗🦂
Please apply if interested and do share! 🐜🪰🪳🦟🦗🦂
Assistant Professor/Urban Entomology - Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
Position Title: Assistant Professor/Urban Entomology
Employee Classification: LC Faculty TT/TN 9m
College/Division: Agricultural,Consumer & Env Sci Col
Department: 303000-ENTOMOLOGY PLANT PATH AND...
careers.nmsu.edu
November 17, 2024 at 3:25 PM
We’re looking for an assistant professor in urban entomology at New Mexico State University: careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/assista...
Please apply if interested and do share! 🐜🪰🪳🦟🦗🦂
Please apply if interested and do share! 🐜🪰🪳🦟🦗🦂
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Yesterday, Dr. Maurício Nogueira passed the presidency of ACAV to the new president, Dr. Shannan Rossi. We are grateful for his leadership and excited for the future under her guidance!
November 15, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Yesterday, Dr. Maurício Nogueira passed the presidency of ACAV to the new president, Dr. Shannan Rossi. We are grateful for his leadership and excited for the future under her guidance!
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our new collaborative work with the Weaver lab, WRCEVA and Brazilian partners on how heterologous flavivirus immunity may prevent urban transmission of yellow fever was just dropped. doi.org/10.1038/s414....
Potential role of heterologous flavivirus immunity in preventing urban transmission of yellow fever virus - Nature Communications
Epidemiology of yellow fever suggests that other flaviviruses may provide some level of cross-protection. Here the authors show in a non-human primate model that pre-existing dengue-2 or Zika virus im...
doi.org
November 11, 2024 at 4:32 PM
our new collaborative work with the Weaver lab, WRCEVA and Brazilian partners on how heterologous flavivirus immunity may prevent urban transmission of yellow fever was just dropped. doi.org/10.1038/s414....
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Couldn’t find a virology starter pack so here’s one to get the ball rolling. Repost/reply if you are a virologist so I can find and add you to the list!
go.bsky.app/SinqoJU
go.bsky.app/SinqoJU
November 10, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Couldn’t find a virology starter pack so here’s one to get the ball rolling. Repost/reply if you are a virologist so I can find and add you to the list!
go.bsky.app/SinqoJU
go.bsky.app/SinqoJU
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A great collaborative effort with the @Virology_FAMERP and others showing Dengue and SARS-CoV-2 co-circulation and overlapping infections in hospitalized patients has dropped. frontiersin.org/journals/cellu….
https://frontiersin.org/journals/cellu…
November 8, 2024 at 10:34 AM
A great collaborative effort with the @Virology_FAMERP and others showing Dengue and SARS-CoV-2 co-circulation and overlapping infections in hospitalized patients has dropped. frontiersin.org/journals/cellu….
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Made a starter package for vector-borne disease folks! Please feel free to comment if you'd like to be added or see somebody missing. This is just the start and grabbed as many as I could quickly find! 🦟 go.bsky.app/U8D4FV2
November 7, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Made a starter package for vector-borne disease folks! Please feel free to comment if you'd like to be added or see somebody missing. This is just the start and grabbed as many as I could quickly find! 🦟 go.bsky.app/U8D4FV2
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Here's a recent-ish paper from the group looking at WNV and SLEV coinfection in a variety of different systems. This has been in progress for a long time. journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
WNV and SLEV coinfection in avian and mosquito hosts: impact on viremia, antibody responses, and vector competence | Journal of Virology
West Nile virus (WNV) and St. Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV) are closely related
viruses that are transmitted by the same mosquitoes and infect the same birds in nature.
Both viruses circulate in the...
journals.asm.org
November 7, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Here's a recent-ish paper from the group looking at WNV and SLEV coinfection in a variety of different systems. This has been in progress for a long time. journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
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Congratulations to Prof. Shannan Rossi for being elected as Felow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene as well as being chair-elect of the American Committee on Arthropod-Borne Viruses and Zoonotic Viruses (ACAV).
October 19, 2023 at 12:50 PM
Congratulations to Prof. Shannan Rossi for being elected as Felow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene as well as being chair-elect of the American Committee on Arthropod-Borne Viruses and Zoonotic Viruses (ACAV).
Congrats to @vasilakislab.bsky.social for winning ACAV’s Dalrymple-Young award at ASTMH 2023!
October 19, 2023 at 12:21 PM
Congrats to @vasilakislab.bsky.social for winning ACAV’s Dalrymple-Young award at ASTMH 2023!