Volume 13, Number 6—June 2007
Dispatch
Reemergence of Oropouche Fever, Northern Brazil
Raimunda do Socorro da Silva Azevedo*, Márcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes*, Jannifer Oliveira Chiang*, Gilberta Bensabath*, Helena Baldez Vasconcelos*, Ana Yecê das Neves Pinto*, Lívia Carício Martins*, Hamilton Antônio de Oliveira Monteiro*, Sueli Guerreiro Rodrigues*, and Pedro F.C. Vasconcelos*
Table 2
Distribution of serum samples positive for immunoglobulin M to Oropouche virus in 2 municipalities, Pará State, Brazil, 2003–2004
| Patient age, y | Porto de Moz, no. positive/no. tested |
Parauapebas, no. positive/no. tested |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| <1–4 | 1/6 | 3/4 | 0/2 | 1/9 |
| 5–14 | 11/21 | 7/19 | 3/21 | 7/24 |
| 15–24 | 2/7 | 7/14 | 0/4 | 4/13 |
| 25–34 | 4/7 | 6/10 | 0/3 | 5/11 |
| 35–44 | 4/5 | 3/5 | 4/4 | 1/7 |
| 45–54 | 2/3 | 4/8 | 1/7 | 3/8 |
| ≥55 |
2/3 |
5/5 |
1/6 |
2/5 |
| Total | 26/52 | 35/65 | 9/47 | 23/77 |
