Serosurvey of hantavirus infection in humans in the border region between Brazil and Argentina Estudo sorológico de infecção por hantavírus em humanos na região de fronteira, entre Brasil e Argentina

• Main Authors: William Marciel de Souza, Alex Martins Machado, Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo, Everton Boff
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2011
• Subjects: Hantavírus; Soroprevalência de hantavirose em Santa Catarina; Morbidade; Hantavirus; Seroprevalence in Santa Catarina; Morbidity; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Argentina; Paraíso
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/d44d8992fc38432b82e56e192191b564

INTRODUCTION: According to reports by the Ministry of Health, in the far western region of the State of Santa Catarina, there have been no reports of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a zoonotic disease transmitted by feces of infected rodents. A seroepidemiological study of residents of this region, w...