Prevalence of antibodies to hantavirus in health care workers exposed to patients with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Temuco, Chile.

Background: An outbreak of Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome (HVCS) caused by the Andes virus, affected Chile since 1995. Antibodies to Hantavirus in health care workers who had cared patients with HVCS in Coyhaique, Argentinean reports and familial clustering of hantaviral illness, raised the pos...

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Main Authors: Castillo H,Constanza, Mardones M,Jovita, Villagra C,Eliecer
Language:English
Published: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2000
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872000000700005
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