Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Uruguay

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Delfraro, Adriana ; Clara, Mario ; Tomé, Lorena ; Achaval, Federico ; Levis, Silvana ; Calderón, Gladys ; Enria, Delia ; Lozano, Mario ; Russi, José ; Arbiza, Juan
• Description:
  During 5,230 trapping nights, 672 small mammals were trapped in the areas where most hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) cases occur in Uruguay. Yellow pygmy rice rats (Oligoryzomys flavescens) were the only rodents that showed evidence of antibodies to hantavirus, with a seroprevalence of 2.6%. The rodents were trapped in all the explored environments, and most of the seropositive rodents were found in habitats frequented by humans. Nucleotide sequences were obtained from four HPS case-patients and four yellow pygmy rice rats of the M genome segment. Sequence comparison and phylogenetic analysis showed that rodent-borne viruses and viruses from three HPS case-patients form a well-supported clade and share a 96.4% identity with the previously characterized Central Plata hantavirus. These results suggest that yellow pygmy rice rat (O. flavescens) may be the host for Central Plata, a hantavirus associated with HPS in the southern area of Uruguay.
• Subjects:
  Animals Antibodies, Viral Disease Reservoirs Hantavirus Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Humans Phylogeny Rats
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 9(7):846-852.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Uruguay
• Volume:
  9
• Issue:
  7
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:edf807f84aa9bce1b2d6a4e0d4d5343b04103bf3afe24d279addd0473be79060
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/14236/cdc_14236_DS1.pdf
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