Prevalence of serum antibodies to hantavirus in a rural population from the southern state of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Gregório Wrublevski Pereira²  André Martins Teixeira²  Mirela Silva De Souza²  Alixandre Dias Braga²  Gilberto Sabino Dos Santos Junior¹  Glauciane Garcia De Figueiredo¹  Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo¹  Alessandra Abel Borges¹ 

[1] ,Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina Faculdade de Medicina Tubarão SC

关键词: Hantavirus;    Seroepidemiological studies;    Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome;    Hantavirus;    Estudos soroepidemiológico;    Síndrome pulmonar por hantavirus;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822012000100022

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

INTRODUCTION: Rodent-borne hantaviruses cause severe human diseases. We completed a serological survey of hantavirus infection in rural inhabitants of Turvo County, in the southern State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in which seropositivity for hantavirus was correlated to previous disease in the participants. METHODS: The levels of IgG antibodies to hantavirus Araraquara in the sera of 257 individuals were determined using an immunoenzymatic assay. RESULTS: IgG antibodies to hantavirus were found in 2.3% of the participants. All seropositive participants reported previous disease with symptoms suggestive of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. CONCLUSIONS: Human infections causing unreported cardiopulmonary syndrome probably occur in the southern State of Santa Catarina.

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