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Volume 19, Number 11—November 2013
Dispatch

Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Outbreak, Brazil, December 2009–January 2010

Ana Cláudia Pereira TerçasComments to Author , Marina Atanaka dos Santos, Marta Gislene Pignatti, Mariano Martinez Espinosa, Alba Valéria Gomes de Melo Via, and Jaqueline Aparecida Menegatti
Author affiliations: Federal University of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil (A.C.P. Terças, M.A. dos Santos, M.G. Pignatti, M.M. Espinosa); University Center Cândido Rondon, Cuiabá (A.C.P. Terças); State Secretary of Health of Mato Grosso, Cuiabá (A.V.G. de Melo Via, J.A. Menegatti)

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Table 1

Distribution of HPS patients, according to sex, age, criterion of confirmation, hospitalization, and evolution of the cases, Sobradinho Indian settlement, Mato Grosso State, Brazil, January 2010*

Characteristic No. (%) male No. (%) female No. (%) total
Age, y
<5 2 (22.2) – 2 (11.1)
5–10 3 (33.3 3 (33.3) 6 (33.3)
11–15 3 (33.3) 3 (33.3) 6 (33.3)
16– 20 1 (11.1) – 1 (5.6)
>20 – 3 (33.3) 3 (16.7)
Criterion of confirmation
Laboratorial 9 (100.0) 8 (88.9) 17 (94.4)
Clinical and epidemiologic – 1 (11.1) 1 (5.6)
Hospitalization
Hospital stay 3 (33.3) 3 (33.3) 6 (33.3)
Observations at house I 2 (22.2) 3 (33.3) 5 (27.8)
Never left Indian settlement 4 (44.4) 3 (33.3) 7 (38.9)
Evolution
Cure 9 (100.0) 8 (88.9) 17 (94.4)
Death – 1 (11.1) 1 (5.6)
Total 9 (50.0) 9 (50.0) 18 (100.0)

*HPS, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome; –, none. Source: Health State Secretary of Mato Grosso, 2011.

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