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SUBMITTER: Vial C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4754785 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease 20150729 1
Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome is a severe disease caused by exposure to New World hantaviruses. Early diagnosis is difficult due to the lack of specific initial symptoms. Antihantavirus antibodies are usually negative until late in the febrile prodrome or the beginning of cardiopulmonary phase, while Andes hantavirus (ANDV) RNA genome can be detected before symptoms onset. We analyzed the effectiveness of quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) as a diagnosti ...[more]