Peridomestic small mammals associated with confirmed cases of human hantavirus disease in southcentral Chile.
Cases of human hantavirus disease have been reported in Chile since 1995, most of them in people living in rural and periurban areas. We conducted a peridomestic study of small mammals to evaluate the relationships between the presence of rodents with antibodies to Andes virus confirmed human cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in southcentral Chile. The results of 20 sampled sites, which involved the capture of 272 mice over an 18-month period, showed the occurrence of 10 small mammal species, of which Oligoryzomys longicaudatus was the only seropositive species for hantavirus, with an intra-specific serologic rate of 10.4%.
Torres-Pérez
Fernando
F
Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Navarrete-Droguett
Jorge
J
Aldunate
Rebeca
R
Yates
Terry L
TL
Mertz
Gregory J
GJ
Vial
Pablo A
PA
Ferrés
Marcela
M
Marquet
Pablo A
PA
Palma
R Eduardo
RE
D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood*; D002677:Chile / Q000453:epidemiology; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D006476:Orthohantavirus / Q000276:immunology*; D018804:Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies
D000914:Antibodies, Viral