| andes virus and first case report of bermejo virus causing fatal pulmonary syndrome. | two suspected hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps) cases from bolivia occurred in may and july 2000 and were confirmed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa)-andes using n-andes recombinant antigen serology. clot rnas from the two patients were subjected to reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (pcr) amplification and sequencing. we describe two characterized cases of hps. one was caused by infection with bermejo virus and the other with andes nort viral lineage, both previously o ... | 2002 | 11971782 |