Jaqueline Carvalho de Oliveira Silva, Igor Rodrigo Ferreira Siqueira, Leormando Fortunato Dornelas, Cristhian Magalhães Ribeiro, João Pedro Berno Gomes, Iagor Wingenbah Guadagnin, Antonieta Relvas Pereira, Genimar Rebouças Julião, Juliana de Souza Almeida Aranha Camargo, Sergio Almeida Basano, Luís Marcelo Aranha Camargo
BACKGROUND: The riverine communities of the Amazon comprise different social groups that inhabit the rural areas on the banks of rivers and lakes. Residents usually travel by river to rural and urban areas and are then exposed to urbanized diseases such as those caused by arbovirus infection. In Brazil, emerging diseases such as dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and those caused by infection with Oropouche and Mayaro viruses necessitate epidemiological surveillance. This study was aimed at determining the frequency of positivity for immunoglobulin (Ig)G and IgM antibodies against Zika, chikungunya, and dengue viruses and performing molecular analyses to detect viral RNA for the Zika, chikungunya, dengue virus, Oropouche, and Mayaro viruses, in the same serum samples obtained from riverside populations...
2024: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical