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Volume 30, Number 12—December 2024
Research

Rio Mamore Hantavirus Endemicity, Peruvian Amazon, 2020

Marta Piche-Ovares, Maria Paquita García, Andres Moreira-Soto, Maribel Dana Figueroa-Romero, Nancy Susy Merino-Sarmiento, Adolfo Ismael Marcelo-Ñique, Edward Málaga-Trillo, Dora Esther Valencia Manosalva, Miladi Gatty-Nogueira, César Augusto Cabezas Sanchez, and Jan Felix DrexlerComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany (M. Piche-Ovares, A. Moreira-Soto, J.F. Drexler); Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Peru (M. Paquita García, M.D. Figueroa-Romero, N.S. Merino-Sarmiento, A.I. Marcelo-Ñique, C.A. Cabezas Sanchez); Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica (A. Moreira-Soto); Universidad Peruana Cayetano, Lima (E. Málaga-Trillo); Laboratorio de Referencia Regional de Salud Pública, Lambayeque, Peru (D.E. Valencia Manosalva); Laboratorio de Referencia Regional de Salud Pública, Loreto, Peru (M. Gatty-Nogueira); German Centre for Infection Research, Berlin, Germany (J.F. Drexler)

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Table 1

Hantavirus IgM-positive serum samples from Loreto, Peru*

Sample IgM ELISA
ratio†		 Patient age, y/sex Patient nationality Date Hantavirus
RT-PCR		 IgG ELISA ratio† IFA result
1395 1.87 1/F Peruvian 2020 Jan Negative 0.16 SNV-like 1.0 × 101
3260 5.00 5/M Peruvian 2020 Jan Positive 1.46 SNV/ANDV-like
1.0 × 104
3261 4.00 3/M Peruvian 2020 Jan Negative 0.15 Negative
3265 1.36 32/M Peruvian 2020 Jan Negative 0.17 Negative
3281 1.22 1/M Peruvian 2020 Jan Negative 0.57 Negative
3345 2.96 <1/M Peruvian 2020 Jan Negative 0.27 Negative
3358 3.73 45/M Peruvian 2020 Sep Negative 0.33 Negative
3376 1.25 27/M Peruvian 2020 Sep Negative 0.28 SNV-like 1.0 × 101
3630 2.60 55/F Peruvian 2020 May Negative 0.17 Negative
4242 2.60 66/F Peruvian 2020 Sep Negative 0.28 SNV/ANDV/
PUUV-like 1.0 × 101
4432 2.03 27/F Peruvian 2021 Jan Negative 0.33 Negative
4605 1.11 21/F Foreign 2020 Dec Negative 0.29 Negative
4893 1.13 2/M Peruvian 2021 Jan Negative 0.51 Negative

*ANDV, Andes virus; IFA, immunofluorescence assay; PUUV, Puumala virus; RT-PCR, reverse transcription PCR; SNV, Sin Nombre virus. †Results with a ratio greater than 1.1 are considered positive and marked in boldface.

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