| microhabitat characteristics of akodon montensis, a reservoir for hantavirus, and hantaviral seroprevalence in an atlantic forest site in eastern paraguay. | hantaviruses may cause serious disease when transmitted to humans by their rodent hosts. since their emergence in the americas in 1993, there have been extensive efforts to understand the role of environmental factors on the presence of these viruses in their host rodent populations. hps outbreaks have been linked to precipitation, but climatic factors alone have not been sufficient to predict the spatial-temporal dynamics of the environment-reservoir-virus system. using a series of mark-recaptu ... | 2009 | 20836810 |
| hantavirus infection prevalence in wild rodents and human anti-hantavirus serological profiles from different geographic areas of south brazil. | paraná state presents the fourth highest number of accumulated cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in brazil. to map the risk areas for hantavirus transmission we carried out a study based on rodent trapping and determined the anti-hantavirus seroprevalence in these animals and in the inhabitants of these localities. overall seroprevalence in rodents and humans were 2.5% and 2.4%, respectively. eighty-two percent of the seropositive rodents were genetically analyzed. phylogenetic analyses rev ... | 2012 | 22855773 |
| detection of the first incidence of akodon paranaensis naturally infected with the jabora virus strain (hantavirus) in brazil. | we characterised hantaviruses circulating in different akodon rodent species collected in midwestern santa catarina (sc), southern brazil, where the jabora hantavirus (jabv) strain was first identified in akodon montensis. genetic and phylogenetic analyses based on a partial s segment indicated that, in sc, akodon paranaensis and a. montensis carried the same type of hantavirus. additionally, we conducted the first genomic characterisation of the complete s segment from the brazilian jabv strain ... | 2012 | 22510841 |