Laboratory acquired infection by the virus SP H 114202 (Arenavirus: Arenaviridae): clinical and laboratory findings Infecção humana adquirida em laboratório causada pelo virus SP H 114202 (Arenavirus: família Arenaviridae): aspectos clínicos e laboratoriais

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos, Amélia Paes de Andrade Travassos da Rosa, Sueli Guerreiro Rodrigues, Robert Tesh, Jorge Fernando Soares Travassos da Rosa, Elizabeth Salbé Travassos da Rosa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1993
• Subjects: Arenavirus; Síndrome febril; Doença humana; Infecção de laboratório; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651993000600008; https://doaj.org/article/9ef28bfbd2f5409fa509ce875a2e0c22

Here in is described the clinical and laboratorial findings of a laboratory-acquired infection caused by the virus SP H 114202 (Arenavirus, family Arenaviridae) a recently discovered agent responsible for a viral hemorrhagic fever. The patient was sick for 13 days. The disease had an abrupt onset characterized by high fever (39ºC.), headache, chills and myalgias for 8 days. In addition, on the 3rd day, the patient developed nauseas and vomiting, and in the 10th, epigastralgia, diarrheia and gengivorrhagia. Leucopenia was seen within the 1 st week of onset, with counts as low as 2,500 white cells per mm³. Counts performed after the 23th day of the onset were within normal limits. With the exception of moderate lymphocitosis, no changes were observed in differential counts. An increase in the liter of antibodies by complement fixation, neutralization and ELISA (IgM) was detected. Suckling mice and baby hamsters were inoculated intracerebrally with 0.02 ml of blood samples collected in the 2nd and 7th days of disease. Attempts to isolate the virus were also made in Vero cells. No virus was isolated. This virus was isolated before in a single occasion in São Paulo State, in 1990, from the blood of a patient with hemorrhagic fever with a fatal outcome. The manipulation of the virus under study, must be done carefully, since the transmission can occur through aerosols. São descritos os achados clínico-laboratoriais da infecção acidental pelo virus SP H 114202 (Arenavirus, família Arenaviridae), um virus novo causador de febre hemorrágica humana. O paciente, técnico de laboratório, apresentou quadro febril por 13 dias. A doença cursou com febre elevada ( 39ºC.) diária, cefaléia, calefrios e mialgias por 8 dias. A partir do 3º dia surgiram náuseas, vômitos alimentares e anorexia e no 10º dia, epigastralgia, diarréia e gengivorragia. Laboratorialmente, foram observadas as seguintes alterações: leucopenia gradativa com linfocitose a medida que a doença evoluía, passando de 5800 para 4100, 3400 e 2500 leucócitos por mm³ de ...