Serological evidence of hantavirus infection in rural and urban regions in the state of Amazonas, Brazil

• Published in: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Vol. 107; no. 1; pp. 135 - 137
• Main Authors: Gimaque, João Bosco Lima, Bastos, Michele de Souza, Braga, Wornei Silva Miranda, Costa de Oliveira1, Cintia Mara, da Costa Castilho, Márcia, Pinto de Figueiredo, Regina Maria, dos Santos Galusso, Elizabeth, Itapirema, Evaulino Ferreira, de Figueiredo, Luiz Tadeu Moraes, Mourão, Maria Paula Gomes
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Brazil Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz 01.02.2012; Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Antibodies, Viral - blood; Brazil - epidemiology; Child; Child, Preschool; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - diagnosis; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - epidemiology; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - virology; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; Female; hantavirus; Hantavirus - immunology; Hantavirus Infections - diagnosis; Hantavirus Infections - epidemiology; Humans; IgG antibodies to hantavirus; Immunoglobulin G - blood; Immunoglobulin M - blood; Male; Middle Aged; PARASITOLOGY; Rural Population; TROPICAL MEDICINE; Urban Population; western Brazilian Amazon; Young Adult; Brazil; hantavirus; IgG antibodies to hantavirus; western Brazilian Amazon

Hantavirus disease is caused by the hantavirus, which is an RNA virus belonging to the family Bunyaviridae. Hantavirus disease is an anthropozoonotic infection transmitted through the inhalation of aerosols from the excreta of hantavirus-infected rodents. In the county of Itacoatiara in the state of...