title: Prevalence of serum antibodies to hantavirus in a rural population from the Southern State of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Rodent-borne hantaviruses cause severe human diseases. We completed a serological survey of hantavirus infection in rural inhabitants of Turvo County, in the southern State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in which seropositivity for hantavirus was correlated to previous disease in the participants.
  
  
  METHODS
  The levels of IgG antibodies to hantavirus Araraquara in the sera of 257 individuals were determined using an immunoenzymatic assay.
  
  
  RESULTS
  IgG antibodies to hantavirus were found in 2.3% of the participants. All seropositive participants reported previous disease with symptoms suggestive of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Human infections causing unreported cardiopulmonary syndrome probably occur in the southern State of Santa Catarina.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Tubarão, SC.
authors.forename: Gregório Wrublevski
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: André Martins
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Teixeira
authors.forename: Mirela Silva de
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.forename: Alixandre Dias
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Braga
authors.forename: Gilberto Sabino dos
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Santos Junior
authors.forename: Glauciane Garcia de
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Figueiredo
authors.forename: Luiz Tadeu Moraes
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Figueiredo
authors.forename: Alessandra Abel
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Borges
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood*; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005260:Female; D006476:Orthohantavirus / Q000276:immunology*; D018778:Hantavirus Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012424:Rural Population
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D007074:Immunoglobulin G