Doença respiratória aguda pelo Hantavirus four corners

Climatic and environmental patterns associated with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, Four Corners region, United States.

To investigate climatic, spatial, temporal, and environmental patterns associated with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) cases in the Four Corners region, we collected exposure site data for HPS cases that occurred in 1993 to 1995. Cases clustered seasonally and temporally by biome type and geographic location, and exposure sites were most often found in pinyon-juniper woodlands, grasslands, ...

Dominant glycoprotein epitope of four corners hantavirus is conserved across a wide geographical area.

A newly identified hantavirus, tentatively called Four Corners virus (FCV), was found to be the aetiological agent of a 1993 outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in the southwestern United States. Immunodominant epitopes of 43 and 31 amino acids were identified in the nucleocapsid protein and G1 glycoprotein, respectively. The G1 genes of different hantaviruses are highly divergent, ...

Acute kidney injury in patients with the influenza A virus (H1N1).

168 No início de 2009, uma epidemia causada por um novo vírus da influenza A da gripe suína (H1N1) foi detectada no México.1 Casos subsequentes foram detectados em todo o mundo e, em junho de 2009, a Organização Mundial da Saúde considerou a ocorrência uma pandemia em nível máximo de alerta. Neste ano, mais de 17.000 mortes relacionadas a esta infecção foram descritas.1,2 No Brasil, no período ...

Predicting contrast-induced nephropathy after percutaneous coronary intervention: Do we need formulas? A cardiological perspective.

A nefropatia induzida pelo contraste (NIC) tem figurado como um diagnóstico cada vez mais frequente no campo da cardiologia intervencionista. Tal fato deve-se ao aumento progressivo no uso de meios de contraste iodados em procedimentos diagnósticos e terapêuticos cardiovasculares, à abordagem de pacientes portadores de múltiplas comorbidades, além de cenários clínicos e angiográficos cada vez m...

Annual Meeting of the Four Corners Section of the APS