| isolation of a hantaan-related virus from brazilian rats and serologic evidence of its widespread distribution in south america. | a serosurvey of domestic rats was conducted in several south american cities between september 1982 and march 1983 for evidence of hantavirus infection. antibody-positive rats were found in belem, são paulo and recife-olinda, brazil and in buenos aires, argentina, with the highest antibody prevalence rate detected in belem (30 positive of 54 tested, 56%). a virus isolated from tissues of a rattus norvegicus captured in belem, was shown to be antigenically similar to girard point viruses isolated ... | 1985 | 2862803 |