Aims

NIH-funded program that supports a collaboration between UNMHSC and Panama and Chile to improve surveillance, diagnostics and therapeutics for hantavirus infections in Chile and Panama.

- To determine several environmental aspects that influence rodent populational sizes and their seroprevalence to hantavirus.

- To develop and test an explict spacial model for predicting outbreaks of hantavirus, including to climatic variability as a force.

Links

Hantavirus Program in Chile (Universidad del Desarrollo; In Spanish)

Hantavirus information (CIM, P.U. Catolica de Chile; In Spanish)

Brian Hjelle's Lab, Emerging Viruses Research Center, UNM, USA

All about Hantavirus, CDC, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal