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

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 parti...

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Main Authors: Gregório Wrublevski Pereira, André Martins Teixeira, Mirela Silva de Souza, Alixandre Dias Braga, Gilberto Sabino dos Santos Junior, Glauciane Garcia de Figueiredo, Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo, Alessandra Abel Borges
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Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2012-02-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822012000100022&lng=en&tlng=en