| 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 |