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 +2 more
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Zoonotic Hantaviridae with Global Public Health Significance
Viruses, 2023 Hantaviridae currently encompasses seven genera and 53 species. Multiple hantaviruses such as Hantaan virus, Seoul virus, Dobrava-Belgrade virus, Puumala virus, Andes virus, and Sin Nombre virus are highly pathogenic to humans.
Rui-Xu Chen +8 more
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Viruses associated with pneumonia in adults. [PDF]
, 2012 Viral pneumonia, which is typically associated with disease in childhood, is increasingly recognized as causing problems in adults. Certain viruses, such as influenza virus, can attack fully immunocompetent adults, but many viruses take advantage of more-
Cesario, Thomas C
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Hantaviral proteins: structure, functions and role in hantavirus infection
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015 Hantaviruses are the members of the family Bunyaviridae that are naturally maintained in the populations of small mammals, mostly rodents. Most of these viruses can easily infect humans through contact with aerosols or dust generated by contaminated ...
Musalwa eMuyangwa +5 more
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Estudo sorológico de infecção por hantavírus em humanos na região de fronteira, entre Brasil e Argentina [PDF]
, 2011 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.
BOFF, Everton +3 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 +7 more
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Vulnerability of Brazilian municipalities to hantavirus infections based on multi‑criteria decision analysis [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Hantavirus infection is an emerging zoonosis transmitted by wild rodents. In Brazil, high case-fatality rates among humans infected with hantavirus are of serious concern to public health authorities.
A Moffett +40 more
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Structure of the Hantavirus Nucleoprotein Provides Insights into the Mechanism of RNA Encapsidation
Cell Reports, 2016 Hantaviruses are etiological agents of life-threatening hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. The nucleoprotein (N) of hantavirus is essential for viral transcription and replication, thus representing an ...
Daniel Olal, Oliver Daumke
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Modeling to Predict Cases of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Chile [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a life threatening disease transmitted by the rodent Oligoryzomys longicaudatus in Chile. Hantavirus outbreaks are typically small and geographically confined.
Brownstein, John S. +4 more
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Human and rodent humoral immune responses to Andes virus structural proteins [PDF]
, 2005 In the present work we identified B-cell epitopes recognized by sera of humans and rodents naturally infected with Andes virus, a hantavirus present in Chile and Argentina.
Tischler, Nicole D. +3 more
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