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Serological evidence of hantavirus infection in apparently healthy people from rural and slum communities in southern Chile.
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- Seroprevalence of hantavirus infection in non-epidemic settings over four decades: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Orthohantavirus infections in South America: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Archives of virology · 2024Pooled it
- Hantavirus antibody seroprevalence and risk factors among adults in West Kazakhstan, 2023.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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- Seroprevalence of rodent-borne viruses in Afro-descendent communities in Brazil.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2019Article
- Rodent-borne viruses survey in rural settlers from Central Brazil.Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz · 2018Article
- Silent Orthohantavirus Circulation Among Humans and Small Mammals from Central Minas Gerais, Brazil.EcoHealth · 2018Article
- Seroepidemiology of toxoplasmosis in rural and urban communities from Los Rios Region, Chile.Infection ecology & epidemiology · 2016Article
- Protective practices against zoonotic infections among rural and slum communities from South Central Chile.BMC public health · 2015Article
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Abstract
Hantavirus disease in America has been recognizable because of its rapid progression in clinical cases, occurrence in previously healthy young adults, and high case fatality rate. Hantavirus disease has been proposed now to define the diversity of clinical manifestations. Since 1995, a total of 902 cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome have been reported in Chile, caused by Andes virus (ANDV), with overall fatality of 32%. This report describes the sero-epidemiology of hantavirus in apparently healthy people in rural and urban slum communities from southern Chile. Ten of 934 samples yielded a positive result resulting in a seroprevalence of 1.07% (95% confidence intervals: 0.05%-2.0%). A higher proportion of positive samples was found among individuals from rural villages (1.3%) and slums (1.5%) compared with farms (0.5%). Seropositivity was associated with age (p = 0.011), low education level (p = 0.006) and occupations linked to the household (homemaker, retired, or student) (p = 0.016). No evidence of infection was found in 38 sigmodontinae rodents trapped in the peri-domestic environment. Our findings highlight that exposure risk was associated with less documented risk factors, such as women in slum and rural villages, and the occurrence of infection that may have presented as flu-like illness that did not require medical attention or was misdiagnosed.
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