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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060
EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 111, No. 6, 2016, pp. 399-402
Bioline Code: oc16058
Full paper language: English
Document type: Short Communication
Document available free of charge

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 111, No. 6, 2016, pp. 399-402

 en Experimental infection of Rio Mamore hantavirus in Sigmodontinae rodents
Souza, William Marciel de; Machado, Alex Martins & Moraes Figueiredo, Luiz Tadeu

Abstract

This study shows an experimental spillover infection of Sigmodontinae rodents with Rio Mamore hantavirus (RIOMV). Necromys lasiurus and Akodon check for this species in other resources sp were infected with 103 RNA copies of RIOMV by intraperitoneal administration. The viral genome was detected in heart, lung, and kidney tissues 18 days after infection (ai), and viral excretion in urine and faeces began at four and six ai, respectively. These results reveal that urine and faeces of infected rodents contain the virus for at least 18 days. It is possible that inhaled aerosols of these excreta could transmit hantavirus to humans and other animals.

Keywords
experimental infection; Rio Mamore hantavirus; wild Sigmodontinae rodents

 
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