Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Central Plateau, Southeastern, and Southern Brazil

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Figueiredo, Luiz T.M. ; Moreli, Marcos L. ; de Sousa, Ricardo L.M. ; Borges, Alessandra A. ; de Figueiredo, Glauciane G. ; Machado, Alex M. ; Bisordi, Ivani ; Nagasse-Sugahara, Teresa K. ; Suzuki, Akemi ; Pereira, Luiz E. ; de Souza, Renato P. ; de Souza, Luiza T.M. ; Braconi, Carla T. ; Harsi, Charlotte M. ; de Andrade Zanotto, Paolo M.
• Corporate Authors:
  Viral Diversity Genetic Network Consortium
• Description:
  Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is an increasing health problem in Brazil because of encroachment of sprawling urban, agricultural, and cattle-raising areas into habitats of subfamily Sigmodontinae rodents, which serve as hantavirus reservoirs. From 1993 through June 2007, a total of 884 cases of HPS were reported in Brazil (case-fatality rate 39%). To better understand this emerging disease, we collected 89 human serum samples and 68 rodent lung samples containing antibodies to hantavirus from a 2,500-km-wide area in Brazil. RNA was isolated from human samples and rodent tissues and subjected to reverse transcription-PCR. Partial sequences of nucleocapsid protein and glycoprotein genes from 22 human and 16 rodent sources indicated only Araraquara virus and Juquitiba virus lineages. The case-fatality rate of HPS was higher in the area with Araraquara virus. This virus, which may be the most virulent hantavirus in Brazil, was associated with areas that have had greater anthropogenic changes.
• Subjects:
  Animals Antibodies, Viral Base Sequence Communicable Diseases, Emerging DNA Primers Genes, Viral Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Humans Nucleocapsid Proteins Phylogeny RNA, Viral Rodentia Viral Proteins Virulence

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 15(4):561-567.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Brazil
• Volume:
  15
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:599656de14c2ce19514519594c6644413a4e5554b0ba10a095b6d157ce7f2dbd
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/17245/cdc_17245_DS1.pdf
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