Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: Report of the first three cases in São Paulo, Brazil

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Marcos Vinicius da SILVA, Marileide Januária VASCONCELOS, Neuma Terezinha Rossetto HIDALGO, Ana Paula Rocha VEIGA, Mauro CANZIAN, Paulo Cesar Fumagali MAROTTO, Vasco Carvalho Pedroso de LIMA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1997
• Subjects: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome; Hantavirus; Emergent disease; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Aguda; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651997000400010; https://doaj.org/article/7af74987f3334c86afdc454f6365e3e4

The hantavirus pulmonary syndrome was first recognized in cases that occurred in the U.S. in 1993, which served as an alert not only for American physicians but also for physicians in other countries for the identification of the disease. In the city of São Paulo, Brazil, 3 cases of the syndrome wer...