Hantaviruses are enzootic viruses that maintain persistent infections in their rodent hosts
without apparent disease symptoms. The spillover of these viruses to humans can lead to …

Rodents represent 42% of the world's mammalian biodiversity encompassing 2,277 species
populating every continent (except Antarctica) and are reservoir hosts for a wide diversity of …

The official classification of newly discovered or long-known unassigned viruses by the
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) requires the deposition of coding …

Hantaviruses are important contributors to disease burden in the New World, yet many
aspects of their distribution and dynamics remain uncharacterized. To examine the patterns …

Bats living in close contact with people in Rwanda were tested for evidence of infection with
viruses of zoonotic potential. Mucosal swabs from 503 bats representing 17 species were …

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is an increasing health problem in Brazil because of
encroachment of sprawling urban, agricultural, and cattle-raising areas into habitats of …

We describe the first, to our knowledge, cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in
northeastern Argentina and eastern Paraguay. Andes and Juquitiba (JUQ) viruses were …

Hantavirus infection is transmitted to humans by wild rodents and the most common clinical
form in Brazil is the Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS). The first serological evidence of …

In this study we analyze population dynamics of hantavirus rodent hosts and prevalence of
infection over a 2-year period in Southern Brazil, a region with a high incidence of …

A 3-year ecological study of small mammals was carried out in an endemic area for
hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the state of Santa Catarina in Southern Brazil. A total of …