Hantaviruses and Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Maranhão, Brazil

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1952-1955

  da Rosa, Elizabeth S Travassos ^a   de Lemos, Elba R Sampaio ^b   Medeiros, Daniele B de Almeida ^a   Simith, Darlene B ^a   Pereira, Armando de Souza ^a   Elkhoury, Mauro R ^c   Mendes, Wellington S ^d   Vidigal, José R B ^e   de Oliveira, Renata C ^b   D'Andrea, Paulo S ^b   Bonvícino, Cibele R ^f   Cruz, Ana C R ^a,g   Nunes, Márcio R T ^a   Vasconcelos, Pedro F da Costa ^a,g  

^a INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

^e State Health Secretariat   (Brazil)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

AMPLICON; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BIOSAFETY; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INCIDENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL AREA; SEROLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; URBAN AREA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BRAZIL; CONTACT TRACING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SIGMODONTINAE;

EID: 78649589475     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1612.100418     Document Type: Article

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