Person-to-Person Household and Nosocomial Transmission of Andes Hantavirus, Southern Chile, 2011
Constanza Martinez-Valdebenito, Mario Calvo, Cecilia Vial, Rita Mansilla, Claudia Marco, R. Eduardo Palma, Pablo Vial, Francisca Valdivieso, Gregory Mertz, and Marcela Ferrés
Author affiliations: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (C. Martinez-Valdebenito, R.E. Palma, M. Ferrés); Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile (M. Calvo); Clínica Alemana–Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile (C. Vial, C. Marco, P.A. Vial, F. Valdivieso); Secretaría Regional Ministerial, Valdivia, Chile (R. Mansilla); University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (G. Mertz)
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Figure 1. Timelines showing progression and key events related to each case-patient (A–E) in a cluster of 5 Andes hantavirus cases, southern Chile, 2011. Blue boxes along timeline for index case-patient (A) indicate date of illness onset for subsequent case-patients; green boxes indicate environmental exposures (exposure for case-patient A was the same as for case-patient C); red boxes indicate contact with other case-patients.
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