Diagnosis of hantavirus infection in humans and rodents in Ribeirão Preto, State of São Paulo, Brazil

Glauciane Garcia de Figueiredo, Alessandra Abel Borges, Gelse Mazzoni Campos, Alex Martins Machado, Fabiano Pinto Saggioro, Gilberto Sabino‐Santos, Soraya Jabur Badra, Alberto Anastacio Amarilla Ortiz, Luíz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2010 · 29 citations · 16 references

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Abstract

This work corroborates previous studies showing that ARAV is the hantavirus causing HPCS in the Ribeirão Preto region. It also shows that rodents infected with hantavirus represent a constant risk of transmission of this virus to man.

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