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Selección de publicaciones realizadas en revistas indexadas (Peer-Reviewed)

  1. Armién, B.; Muñoz, C.; Cedeño, H.; Salazar, J.R.; Salinas, T.P.; González, P.; Trujillo, J.; Sánchez, D.; Mariñas, J.; Hernández, A.; et al. Hantavirus in Panama: Twenty Years of Epidemiological Surveillance Experience. Viruses 2023, 15, 1395. https://doi.org/10.3390/v15061395 .
  2. Publio Gonzalez, Jacqueline R. Salazar, Tybbysay P. Salinas, Mario Avila, Jocelyn P. Colella, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Gregory E. Glass, Gloria Gonzalez, Enos Juarez, Kimberly Lindblade, Edwin Pile, Yaxelis Mendoza, Juan Miguel Pascale, Anibal G. Armien, Joseph A. Cook, and Blas Armien. Two Decades of Wildlife Pathogen Surveillance: Case Study of Choclo orthohantavirus and Its Wild Reservoir Oligoryzomys costaricensis. Viruses 2023, 15, 1390. https://doi.org/10.3390/v15061390 .
  3. Hesse S, Nuñez H, Salazar JR, Salinas TP, Barrera E, Chong R, Torres S, Cumbrera A, Olivares I, Junco A, Matteo C, González C, Chavarría O, Moreno A, Góndola J, Ábrego L, Díaz Y, Pitti Y, Franco D, Martínez-Montero M, Pascale JM, López-Vergès S, Martínez AA, Armién B. 2021. Case Report: First Confirmed Case of Coinfection of SARS-CoV-2 With Choclo Orthohantavirus. Frontiers in Tropical Diseases. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fitd.2021.769330
  4. Salinas T, Garrido JL, Salazar J, Gonzalez P, Zambrano N, Fuentes Villalobos F, Bravo F, Fica-Leon V, Salas-Burgos A, Calvo M, Alvarez R, Armien B, Barria MI. 2021. Cytokine Profiles and Antibody Response Associated to Choclo Orthohantavirus Infection. Frontiers in Immunology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.603228
  5. Cook JA, Arai S, Armién B, Bates J, Bonilla CAC, Cortez MBS, Dunnum JL, Ferguson AW, Johnson KM, Khan FAA, Paul DL, Reeder DM, Revelez MA, Simmons NB, Thiers BM, Thompson CW, Upham NS, Vanhove MPM, Webala PW, Weksler M, Yanagihara R, Soltis PS. Integrating Biodiversity Infrastructure into Pathogen Discovery and Mitigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2020 Jul 1;70(6):531-534. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32665736/. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa064. Epub 2020 Jun 24.
  6. Harris C, Armién B. Sociocultural determinants of adoption of preventive practices for hantavirus: A knowledge, attitudes, and practices survey in Tonosí, Panama. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 Feb 27;14(2):e0008111. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008111. https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0008111. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32107494
  7. Galbreath KE, Hoberg EP, Cook JA, Armién B, Bell KC, Campbell ML, Dunnum JL, Dursahinhan AT, Eckerlin RP, Gardner SL, Greiman SE, Henttonen H, Jiménez FA, Koehler AVA, Nyamsuren B, Tkach VV, Torres-Pérez F, Tsvetkova A, Hope AG. Building an integrated infrastructure for exploring biodiversity: field collections and archives of mammals and parasites. J Mammal. 2019 Apr 24;100(2):382-393. doi: 1093/jmammal/gyz048. Epub 2019 Apr 10.
  8. Dunnum JL, Yanagihara R, Johnson KM,Armién B, Batsaikhan N, Morgan L, Cook JA. Biospecimen Repositories and Integrated Databases as Critical Infrastructure for Pathogen Discovery and Pathobiology Research.PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017 Jan 26;11(1):e0005133. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005133
  9. Blas Armién, Paulo Lazaro Ortiz, Publio Gonzalez, Alberto Cumbrera, Alina Rivero, Mario Avila, Aníbal G. Armién, Frederick Koster, Gregory Glass. Spatial-temporal distribution of Hantavirus rodent-borne infection by Oligoryzomysfulvescens in the Agua Buena region – Panama . PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Feb 19;10(2):e0004460. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004460
  10. Blas Armién, Juan M. Pascale, Carlos Muñoz, Jamileth Mariñas, Heydy Núñez, Milagro Herrera, José Trujillo, Deyanira Sánchez, Yaxelis Mendoza, Brian Hjelle, and Frederick Koster , HRG. Hantavirus Fever without Pulmonary Syndrome in Panama. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2013 Sep;89(3):489-94. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.12-0334
  11. Blas Armién, Juan M. Pascale, Carlos Munoz, Sang-Joon Lee, Kook L. Choi, Mario Avila, Candida Broce, Anibal G. Armién, Fernando Gracia, Brian Hjelle, and Frederick Koster. Incidence Rate for Hantavirus Infections without Pulmonary Syndrome, Panama. EID, Volume 17, Number 10—October 2011. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1710.101717
  12. Nelson R, Cañate R, Pascale JM, Dragoo JW, Armién B, Armién AG, Koster F. Confirmation of Choclo virus as the cause of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome and high serum antibody prevalence in Panama. Med Virol. 2010 Sep;82(9):1586-93. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.21864
  13. Gracia F, Armién B, Simpson SQ, Munoz C, Broce C, Pascale JM, Koster F. Convalescent Pulmonary Dysfunction Following Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Panama and the United States. 2010 Oct;188(5):387-91. Epub 2010 Jun 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-010-9245-4
  14. Publio González, Yadéeh E. Sawyer, Mario Avila, Aníbal G. Armién, Blas Armién, Joseph A. Cook. Variation in Cytochrome-b Haplotypes Suggests a New Species of Zygodontomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae) endemic to Isla Coiba, Panama. Zoologia (Curitiba, Impr.) vol.27 no.4 Curitiba Aug. 2010. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-46702010000400014.
  15. Aníbal G. Armién, Blas Armién, Frederick Koster, Juan Miguel Pascale, Mario Avila, Publio Gonzalez, Manuel De La Cruz, Yamitzel Zaldivar, Yaxelis Mendoza, Fernando Gracia, Brian Hjelle, Sang-Joon Lee, Terry L.Yates and Jorge Salazar–Bravo. Hantavirus Infection and Habitat Associations among Rodent Populations in Agroecosystems of Panama: Implications for Human Disease Risk. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2009 Jul;81(1):59-66. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19556568/
  16. Suzán G, Marcé E, Giermakowski JT, Mills JN, Ceballos G, Ostfeld RS, Armién B, Pascale JM, Yates TL. Experimental evidence for reduced rodent diversity causing increased hantavirus prevalence.PLoS ONE. 2009;4(5):e5461. Epub 2009 May 6. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005461
  17. Suzán G, Marcé E, Giermakowski JT, Armién B, Pascale J, Mills J, Ceballos G, Gómez A, Aguirre AA, Salazar-Bravo J, Armién A, Parmenter R, Yates T. The effect of habitat fragmentation and species diversity loss on hantavirus prevalence in Panama.Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2008 Dec;1149:80-3. https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1428.063
  18. Gerardo Suzán, Anibal Armién, James N. Mills, Erika Marcé, Gerardo Ceballos, Mario Ávila, Jorge Salazar-Bravo, Luis Ruedas, Blas Armién, Terry L. Yates. Epidemiological Considerations of Rodent Community Composition in Fragmented Landscapes in Panama, Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 89, Issue 3, 5 June 2008, Pages 684–690. https://doi.org/10.1644/07-MAMM-A-015R1.1
  19. Gerardo Suzán, J. Tomasz Giermakowski, Erika Marcé, Humberto Suzán, Blas Armién, and Terry L.Yates. Modelling Hantavirus reservoir species dominance in high seroprevalence areas on the Azuero Peninsula of Panama. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006 Jun;74(6):1103-10. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2006.74.1103
  20. Vicente Bayard, Paul Kitsutani, Eduardo O. Barria, Luis A. Ruedas, David S. Tinnin, Carlos Muñoz, Itza B. de Mosca, Gladys Guerrero, Rudick Kant, Arsenio Garcia, Lorenzo Cáceres, Fernando Gracia, Evelia Quiroz, Zoila Castillo, Blas Armién, Marlo Libel, James N. Mills, Ali S. Khan, Stuard T. Nichol, Pierre E. Rollin, Thomas G. Ksiazek and Clerence J. Peters. Outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, Los Santos, Panama, 1999-2000. Emerging infectious diseases, 10(9), 1635-1642. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1009.040143
  21. Armién, B., J. M. Pascale, V. Bayard, C. Muñoz, I. Mosca, G. Guerrero, A. Armién, E. Quiroz, Z. Castillo, Y. Zaldivar, F. Gracia, B. Hjelle and F. Koster: High seroprevalence of hantavirus infection on the Azuero peninsula of Panama. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2004 Jun;70(6):682-7.(https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2004.70.682 )
  22. Luis A. Ruedas, Jorge Salazar-Bravo, David S. Tinnin, Blas Armién, Lorenzo Cáceres, Arsenio García, Mario Ávila Díaz, Fernando Gracia, Gerardo Suzán, C. J. Peters, Terry L. Yates, and James N. Mills. Community ecology of small mammal populations in Panama following an outbreak of Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. J Vector Ecol. 2004 Jun;29(1):177-91. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15266755/
  23. Jorge Salazar-Bravo, Blas Armién, Gerardo Suzán, Anibal Armién, Luis A.Ruedas, Mario Avila, Yamizel Zaldívar, Juan M. Pascale, Fernando Gracia, and Terry L. Yates, Serosurvey of Wild Rodents for Hantaviruses in Panama, 2000–2002. Journal of Wildlife Diseases: January 2004, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 103-109.(https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-40.1.103)
  24. Vincent, M. J., Quiroz, E., Gracia, F., Sanchez, A. J., Ksiazek, T. G., Kitsutani, P. T., Ruedas, L. A., Tinnin, D. S., Caceres, L., Garcia, A., Rollin, P. E., Mills, J. N., Peters, C. J., & Nichol, S. T. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Panama: identification of novel hantaviruses and their likely reservoirs. Virology, 2000, 277(1), 14–19. https://doi.org/10.1006/viro.2000.0563

Selección de otras publicaciones realizadas (Libros, Guías y Normas)

MINSA-CSS-ICGES. Guía de Manejo de la Enfermedad por Hantavirus en Panamá. Editores: Blas Armién, Bernardino Denis, Hector Cedeño. ISBN 978-9962-699-12-5. Enero 2016. (http://www.gorgas.gob.pa/Documentos/Guia_Hantavirus.pdf)

MINSA-CSS-ICGES. Norma de Vigilancia Epidemiológica de Hantavirus en Panamá. Editores: Blas Armién, Bernardino Denis, Hector Cedeño. ISBN 978-9962-699-13-2. Enero 2016. (http://www.gorgas.gob.pa/Documentos/Normativa_Hantavirus.pdf)
http://www.gorgas.gob.pa/Documentos/Guia_y_Normativa_Hantavirus.pdf