Article
Rio Mamoré Virus and Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Brazil
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OLIVEIRA, Renata Carvalho de et al. Rio Mamore Virus and Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Brazil. Emerging Infectious Diseases, v.20, n.9, sept. 2014.
1080-6040
10.3201/eid2009.131472
Autor
Oliveira, Renata Carvalho de
Santos, Marcelo Cordeiro
Guterres, Alexandro
Fernandes, Jorlan
Melo, Alexsandro X. de
João, Guilherme A. P
Novais, Maria A. M
Rosa, Elizabeth Salbé Travassos da
Vasconcelos, Pedro Fernando da Costa
Oliveira, Stefan Vilges de
Albuquerque, Bernardino Cláudio de
Lemos, Elba Regina Sampaio de
Resumen
Hantavirus pulmonary
syndrome (HPS) is an acute,
severe, frequently fatal disease associated
with cardiopulmonary failure;
it is caused by hantaviruses naturally
hosted by wild rodents. Rio Mamore
virus (RIOMV) was first described in
1996 in Bolivia; it was associated with
the small-eared pygmy rice rat, Oligoryzomys
microtis (1). Subsequently, 1
strain of RIOMV was isolated from
O. microtis rats in Peru, designated
HTN-007 (2); and 2 strains were recovered
in the Brazilian Amazon from
O. microtis rats (RIOMV-3) and uncharacterized
species of rodents of the
genus Oligoryzomys (RIOMV-4) (3).
Recently, HPS cases associated with
RIOMV have been reported: 2 cases
in Peru (4) and 1 case in French Guiana
(caused by a variant named Maripa
virus) (5). We report isolation of a
strain of RIOMV from a patient with
fatal HPS in Brazil....