Sabiá Virus–Like Mammarenavirus in Patient with Fatal Hemorrhagic Fever, Brazil, 2020
Fernanda de Mello Malta, Deyvid Amgarten, Ana Catharina de Seixas Santos Nastri, Chung-Chou H. Chang, Luciana Vilas Boas Casadio, Marcela Basqueira, Glória Selegatto, Murilo Castro Cervato, Amaro Nunes Duarte‐Neto, Hermes Ryoiti Higashino, Felipe A. Medeiros, José Luiz Pinto Lima Gendler, Anna S. Levin, João Renato Rebello Pinho
Abstract
V iral infections have become an important public health issue in South America during the past 2 decades. Outbreaks of arboviral disease, such as dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and yellow fever, have increased concern about improving surveillance and diagnosis of viral infections in anticipation of the next threat (1-4). South American arenaviruses belong to the New World serogroups, cause chronic infection in rodents, and have been associated with neurologic symptoms and hemorrhagic fever in humans (5).