Volume 8, Number 7, July 2002

Research

First Human Isolate of Hantavirus (Andes virus) in the Americas

Hector Galeno,* Judith Mora,* Eliecer Villagra,* Jorge Fernandez,* Jury Hernandez,† Gregory J. Mertz,‡ and Eugenio Ramirez*
*Public Health Institute of Chile, Santiago, Chile; †Los Angeles Hospital, Santiago, Chile; and ‡University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Figure 1. Immunofluorescence assay (IFA) of Vero E6 cells infected with Chilean hantavirus CHI-7913 isolate. A, IFA with seropositive human sera from a Chilean HPS patient; arrow shows infected Vero E6 cells expressing hantavirus antigens. B, IFA with seronegative human sera from uninfected control; arrow shows the negative IFA of Vero E6 cells infected with the CHI-7913 isolate.

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