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- Title
Person-to-Person Household and Nosocomial Transmission of Andes Hantavirus, Southern Chile, 2011.
- Authors
Martinez-Valdebenito, Constanza; Calvo, Mario; Vial, Cecilia; Mansilla, Rita; Marco, Claudia; Palma, R. Eduardo; Vial, Pablo A.; Valdivieso, Francisca; Mertz, Gregory; Ferrés, Marcela
- Abstract
Andes hantavirus (ANDV) causes hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome in Chile and is the only hantavirus for which person-to-person transmission has been proven. We describe an outbreak of 5 human cases of ANDV infection in which symptoms developed in 2 household contacts and 2 health care workers after exposure to the index case-patient. Results of an epidemiologic investigation and sequence analysis of the virus isolates support person-to-person transmission of ANDV for the 4 secondary casepatients, including nosocomial transmission for the 2 health care workers. Health care personnel who have direct contact with ANDV case-patients or their body fluids should take precautions to prevent transmission of the virus. In addition, because the incubation period of ANDV after environmental exposure is longer than that for person-to-person exposure, all persons exposed to a confirmed ANDV case-patient or with possible environmental exposure to the virus should be monitored for 42 days for clinical symptoms.
- Subjects
HANTAVIRUSES; HANTAVIRUS diseases; NOSOCOMIAL infections; NUCLEOTIDE sequence; VIRUS phylogeny; INFECTIOUS disease transmission
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014, Vol 20, Issue 10, p1629
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid2010.140353