Publications
| potential geographic distribution of hantavirus reservoirs in brazil. | hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome is an emerging zoonosis in brazil. human infections occur via inhalation of aerosolized viral particles from excreta of infected wild rodents. necromys lasiurus and oligoryzomys nigripes appear to be the main reservoirs of hantavirus in the atlantic forest and cerrado biomes. we estimated and compared ecological niches of the two rodent species, and analyzed environmental factors influencing their occurrence, to understand the geography of hantavirus transmiss ... | 2013 | 24391989 |
| characterization of juquitiba virus in oligoryzomys fornesi from brazilian cerrado. | the juquitiba virus, an agent of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome, is one of the most widely distributed hantavirus found in south america. it has been detected in oligoryzomys nigripes, akodon montensis, oxymycterus judex, akodon paranaensis in brazil and in o. nigripes, oryzomys sp. and oligoryzomys fornesi rodents in argentine, paraguay and uruguay. here, we report the genomic characterization of the complete s segment from the juquitiba strain, isolated from the lung tissues of o. fornesi ... | 2014 | 24674957 |