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Rio Mamore Virus and Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Brazil

2014; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Volume: 20; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3201/eid2009.131472

1080-6059

Renata Carvalho de Oliveira, Marcelo Cordeiro‐Santos, Alexandro Guterres, Jorlan Fernandes, Alexsandro X. de Melo, Guilherme A.P. João, Maria Auxiliadora Monteiro Novais, Elizabeth Salbé Travassos da Rosa, Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos, Stefan Vilges de Oliveira, Bernardino Cláudio de Albuquerque, Elba Regina Sampaio de Lemos,

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To the Editor: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is an acute, severe, frequently fatal disease associated with cardiopulmonary failure; it is caused by hantaviruses naturally hosted by wild rodents.Rio Mamore virus (RIOMV) was first described in 1996 in Bolivia; it was associated with the small-eared pygmy rice rat, Oligoryzomys microtis (1).Subsequently, 1 strain of RIOMV was isolated from O. microtis rats in Peru, designated HTN-007 (2); and 2 strains were recovered in the Brazilian Amazon from O. microtis rats (RIOMV-3) and uncharacterized species of rodents of the genus Oligoryzomys (RIOMV-4) (3).Recently, HPS cases associated with RIOMV have been reported: 2 cases in Peru (4) and 1 case in French Guiana (caused by a variant named Maripa virus) (5).We report isolation of a strain of RIOMV from a patient with fatal HPS in Brazil.