Prevalence of serum antibodies to hantavirus in a rural population from the southern state of Santa Catarina, Brazil

INTRODUCTION: Rodent-borne hantaviruses cause severe human diseases. We completed a serological survey of hantavirus infection in rural inhabitants of Turvo County, in the southern State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in which seropositivity for hantavirus was correlated to previous disease in the parti...

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Published in:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Main Authors: Gregório Wrublevski Pereira, André Martins Teixeira, Mirela Silva de Souza, Alixandre Dias Braga, Gilberto Sabino dos Santos Junior, Glauciane Garcia de Figueiredo, Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo, Alessandra Abel Borges
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2012
Subjects:
Hantavirus
Estudos soroepidemiológico
Síndrome pulmonar por hantavirus
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822012000100022
https://doaj.org/article/5d4f7900fd3445ed9cef6b2f26a8e44c
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Summary:INTRODUCTION: Rodent-borne hantaviruses cause severe human diseases. We completed a serological survey of hantavirus infection in rural inhabitants of Turvo County, in the southern State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in which seropositivity for hantavirus was correlated to previous disease in the participants. METHODS: The levels of IgG antibodies to hantavirus Araraquara in the sera of 257 individuals were determined using an immunoenzymatic assay. RESULTS: IgG antibodies to hantavirus were found in 2.3% of the participants. All seropositive participants reported previous disease with symptoms suggestive of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. CONCLUSIONS: Human infections causing unreported cardiopulmonary syndrome probably occur in the southern State of Santa Catarina.

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