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Bradley J Blitvich1, Rungrat Saiyasombat, Lourdes G Talavera-Aguilar
1Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA. blitvich@iastate.edu
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|September 29, 2012
Abstract:
We performed a serologic investigation to determine whether orthobunyaviruses commonly infect humans in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Orthobunyavirus-specific antibodies were detected by plaque reduction neutralization test in 146 (18%) of 823 persons tested. Further studies are needed to determine health risks for humans from this potentially deadly group of viruses.
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