%0 Journal Article
%T Prevalence of serum antibodies to hantavirus in a rural population from the southern state of Santa Catarina, Brazil
%A Pereira
%A Greg¨®rio Wrublevski
%A Teixeira
%A Andr¨¦ Martins
%A Souza
%A Mirela Silva de
%A Braga
%A Alixandre Dias
%A Santos Junior
%A Gilberto Sabino dos
%A Figueiredo
%A Glauciane Garcia de
%A Figueiredo
%A Luiz Tadeu Moraes
%A Borges
%A Alessandra Abel
%J Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
%D 2012
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT
%R 10.1590/S0037-86822012000100022
%X introduction: rodent-borne hantaviruses cause severe human diseases. we completed a serological survey of hantavirus infection in rural inhabitants of turvo county, in the southern state of santa catarina, brazil, in which seropositivity for hantavirus was correlated to previous disease in the participants. methods: the levels of igg antibodies to hantavirus araraquara in the sera of 257 individuals were determined using an immunoenzymatic assay. results: igg antibodies to hantavirus were found in 2.3% of the participants. all seropositive participants reported previous disease with symptoms suggestive of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. conclusions: human infections causing unreported cardiopulmonary syndrome probably occur in the southern state of santa catarina.
%K hantavirus
%K seroepidemiological studies
%K hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0037-86822012000100022&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en