| hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in brasilia periphery: a diagnostic challenge. | hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps) is an emerging rodent-borne disease in the american continent, characterized by acute respiratory distress and a high case-fatality ratio. the present work describes a case of hps, with favorable outcome, whose initial features were mistaken for leptospirosis or other less severe acute infections. | 2009 | 19801809 |
| characterization of hantaviruses circulating in central brazil. | in 2004, an outbreak of hcps in brazil made hantaviruses a national threat to the rural and urban population. during this outbreak, 164 cases were reported, and 18.3% of them occurred in the federal district. in this study, hantavirus genomic sequences were amplified from seven patients who resided in central brazil and then sequenced and compared to other hantavirus sequences. the complete s segment sequence, which is 1847 bases long and potentially encodes the 428 amino acid nucleocapsid prote ... | 2009 | 19103306 |
| syndromic surveillance: etiologic study of acute febrile illness in dengue suspicious cases with negative serology. brazil, federal district, 2008. | with the aim of identifying the etiology of acute febrile illness in patients suspected of having dengue, yet with non reagent serum, a descriptive study was conducted with 144 people using secondary serum samples collected during convalescence. the study was conducted between january and may of 2008. all the exams were re-tested for dengue, which was confirmed in 11.8% (n = 17); the samples that remained negative for dengue (n = 127) were tested for rubella, with 3.9% (n = 5) positive results. ... | 2010 | 21049226 |
| ten years of a hantavirus disease emergency in the federal district, brazil. | hantavirus diseases are emerging human diseases caused by hantavirus spp. of the bunnyaviridae family. hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps) has been detected in the federal district (df) of brazil since 2004. among the 27 brazilian federal units, df has the highest fatality rate. more than 10 years have already passed since then, with confirmation of cases caused by the araraquara and paranoa species. the reservoir is necromys lasiurus. | 2016 | 27163562 |