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Volume 18, Number 4—April 2012
Letter

Mayaro Virus Infection in Traveler Returning from Amazon Basin, Northern Peru

Andreas Neumayr1Comments to Author , Martin Gabriel1, Jasmin Fritz, Stephan Günther, Christoph Hatz, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, and Johannes Blum
Author affiliations: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland (A. Neumayr, J. Fritz, C. Hatz, J. Blum); Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany (M. Gabriel, S. Günther, J. Schmidt-Chanasit)

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Figure A1

Distribution of Mayaro virus (MAYV) in the Central and South America (3,5–7).

Figure A1. Distribution of Mayaro virus (MAYV) in the Central and South America (3,5–7).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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