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 …

Rodents are recognized reservoir hosts for many human zoonotic pathogens. The current
trends resulting from anthropocene defaunation suggest that in the future they, along with …

Since the recognition of hantavirus as the agent responsible for haemorrhagic fever in
Eurasia in the 1970s and, 20 years later, the descovery of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome …

Thirteen hantavirus genotypes, associated with at least 12 sigmodontine reservoir rodents,
have been recognized in the four countries that represent the Southern Cone of South …

Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome is an emerging zoonosis in Brazil. Human infections
occur via inhalation of aerosolized viral particles from excreta of infected wild rodents …

The number of documented American orthohantaviruses has increased significantly over
recent decades, but most fundamental research has remained focused on just two of them …

Species identification through DNA barcoding is a tool to be added to taxonomic
procedures, once it has been validated. Applying barcoding techniques in public health …

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 …

To identify and predict situations of increased risk of orthohantavirus infection in humans, it
is necessary to study the relationships between the virus and its rodent hosts. The present …