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Seroprevalence of Hantavirus among Manual Cane Cutters and Epidemiological Aspects of HPS in Central Brazil

Viruses, 2023
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a rodent-borne zoonotic disease that is endemic throughout the Americas. Agricultural activities increase exposure to wild rodents, especially for sugarcane cutters.
Renata Malachini Maia, Jorlan Fernandes, Luciana Helena Bassan Vicente de Mattos, Luiz Antonio Bastos Camacho, Karlla Antonieta Amorim Caetano, Megmar Aparecida dos Santos Carneiro, Fernando de Oliveira Santos, Sheila Araujo Teles, Elba Regina Sampaio de Lemos, Renata Carvalho de Oliveira   +9 more
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Hantavirus infections [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2019
Over the past few decades understanding and recognition of hantavirus infection has greatly improved worldwide, but both the amplitude and the magnitude of hantavirus outbreaks have been increasing. Several novel hantaviruses with unknown pathogenic potential have been identified in a variety of insectivore hosts.
Avšič-Županc, T., Saksida, A., Korva, M.   +2 more
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Comment on Jameson et al.: Prevalence of Antibodies against Hantaviruses in Serum and Saliva of Adults Living or Working on Farms in Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Viruses, 2014
This British hantavirus IgG prevalence study, aimed at 119 asymptomatic farmers in England, and using indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) as screening technique, concluded that rat-transmitted Seoul virus (SEOV) might be the main suspect as ...
Jan Clement, Paula McKenna, Valentijn Vergote, Marc Van Ranst   +3 more
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Could hantavirus circulation superpose areas of highly endemic vaccinia virus outbreaks? A retrospective seroepidemiological study in State of Minas Gerais

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2014
Introduction Hantavirus infections have been described in several regions in Brazil through seroepidemiological studies.
Giliane de Souza Trindade, André Tavares da Silva Fernandes, Galileu Barbosa Costa, Poliana de Oliveira Figueiredo, Jônatas Santos Abrahão, Erna Geessien Kroon, Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo, Flávio Guimarães da Fonseca   +7 more
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Serological evidence of hantavirus infection in an urban area in Mato Grosso State, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2016
: INTRODUCTION: In Brazil, Mato Grosso (MT) has the highest number of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome cases. Our study aimed to identify anti-hantavirus antibodies in the sera of patients from Sinop, MT, presenting with acute febrile illness ...
Carla Julia da Silva Pessoa Vieira, David José Ferreira da Silva, Eriana Serpa Barreto, Carlos Eduardo Hassegawa Siqueira, Vivaldo Gomes da Costa, Fábio José Lourenço, Marcos Lázaro Moreli, Roberta Vieira de Morais Bronzoni   +7 more
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Hantavirus infection among children hospitalized for febrile illness suspected to be dengue in Barbados

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2016
Summary: Emerging picture of hantavirus infection in the South America is characterized by greater proportion of childhood infection and wider spectrum of disease from mild asymptomatic to lethal cardiopulmonary disease.
Alok Kumar, Kandamaran Krishnamurthy, Anders L. Nielsen   +2 more
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A lethal disease model for New World hantaviruses using immunosuppressed Syrian hamsters. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017
Hantavirus, the hemorrhagic causative agent of two clinical diseases, is found worldwide with variation in severity, incidence and mortality. The most lethal hantaviruses are found on the American continent where the most prevalent viruses like Andes ...
Valentijn Vergote, Lies Laenen, Bert Vanmechelen, Marc Van Ranst, Erik Verbeken, Jay W Hooper, Piet Maes   +6 more
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Serological evidence of hantavirus infection in rural and urban regions in the state of Amazonas, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2012
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.
João Bosco Lima Gimaque, Michele de Souza Bastos, Wornei Silva Miranda Braga, Cintia Mara Costa de Oliveira, Márcia da Costa Castilho, Regina Maria Pinto de Figueiredo, Elizabeth dos Santos Galusso, Evaulino Ferreira Itapirema, Luiz Tadeu Moraes de Figueiredo, Maria Paula Gomes Mourão   +9 more
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Atypical case of hantavirus infection in Sri Lanka mimicking leptospirosis: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2020
Background Hantavirus infection is an emerging zoonotic infection which has two characteristic patterns of presentation: hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.
Chamara Dalugama, Madushi Nanayakkara, Nimanthi Rathnayaka, Arjuna Medagama   +3 more
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Endothelial cell permeability during hantavirus infection involves factor XII-dependent increased activation of the kallikrein-kinin system. [PDF]

PLoS Pathogens, 2013
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) are diseases caused by hantavirus infections and are characterized by vascular leakage due to alterations of the endothelial barrier.
Shannon L Taylor, Victoria Wahl-Jensen, Anna Maria Copeland, Peter B Jahrling, Connie S Schmaljohn   +4 more
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