Infección por hantavirus en la Provincia de Buenos Aires-Argentina. Comportamiento de la serie temporal 1997-2021
Rodríguez A., Alejandra; Bolzán, Andrés; Pamparana, Carolina.
Rev. chil. infectol
; 40(3)jun. 2023.
Article
in Spanish
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LILACS-Express
| ID: biblio-1515123
Background:
Hantavirus infection is endemic in South America, with a wide spectrum of severity and a fatality rate that varies between 17-40 percent. This study collects information from 25 years of epidemiological surveillance in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Aim:
To characterize the behavior of the 1997-2021 time series, observing trends and seasonality.Methods:
The time series function used the moving average centered according to quarterly periods, so that each year was divided into quartiles. A multiplicative model is missed.Results:
With a mortality rate for the series of 0.15 per 100,000 and a fatality rate of 22.6, the male female ratio was 3.41. The syndromic distribution showed greater renal involvement, with the mortality rate being practically the same in both sexes.Conclusion:
As an infectious disease, hantavirus has reflected in the last 25 years a behavior, recurrent and seasonal, endemic and shared in its clinical characteristics with the rest of the Andean region.
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