Mayaro Virus Infection, Amazon Basin Region, Peru, 2010–2013
- Eric S. Halsey
- Crystyan Siles
- Carolina Guevara
- Stalin Vilcarromero
- Erik J. Jhonston
- Cesar Ramal
- Patricia V. Aguilar
- Julia S. Ampuero
Publication date
November 2013
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
During 2010–2013, we recruited 16 persons with confirmed Mayaro virus infection in the Peruvian Amazon to prospectively follow clinical symptoms and serologic response over a 12-month period. Mayaro virus infection caused long-term arthralgia in more than half, similar to reports of other arthritogenic alphaviruses
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