Prevalence of antibodies to hantavirus among family and health care worker contacts of persons with hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome: Lack of evidence for nosocomial transmission of andes virus to health care workers in Chile

被引：15

作者：

Castillo, C

Villagra, E

Sanhueza, L

Ferres, M

Mardones, J

Mertz, GJ

机构：

[1] Univ La Frontera, Fac Med, Temuco, Chile

[2] Inst Salud Publ Chile, Santiago, Chile

[3] Serv Salud Araucania, Temuco, Chile

[4] Univ New Mexico, Dept Internal Med, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA

来源：

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE | 2004年 / 70卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.4269/ajtmh.2004.70.302

中图分类号：

R1 [预防医学、卫生学];

学科分类号：

1004 ; 120402 ;

摘要：

Nosocomial transmission of Andes virus has been documented in Argentina, but has not yet been proven in Chile. We studied 215 contacts (106 family member contacts and 109 health care worker contacts) of 20 index cases of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) in Chile. The seroprevalence of IgG antibodies against Andes virus was 1.9% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.34-6.3%) among the family members and 0.0% (95% CI = 0-3.2%) among the health care workers. Our data suggest that there is no evidence for nosocomial transmission of Andes virus in region IX of Chile.

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页码：302 / 304

页数：3

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