Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2020)

Mother-to-Child Transmission of Andes Virus through Breast Milk, Chile

  • Marcela Ferrés,
  • Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito,
  • Jenniffer Angulo,
  • Carolina Henríquez,
  • Jorge Vera-Otárola,
  • María José Vergara,
  • Javier Pérez,
  • Jorge Fernández,
  • Viviana Sotomayor,
  • María Francisca Valdés,
  • Diego González-Candia,
  • Nicole D. Tischler,
  • Cecilia Vial,
  • Pablo Vial,
  • Gregory Mertz,
  • Nicole Le Corre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2608.200204
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 8
pp. 1885 – 1888

Abstract

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Andes virus (ANDV) is the only hantavirus transmitted between humans through close contact. We detected the genome and proteins of ANDV in breast milk cells from an infected mother in Chile who transmitted the virus to her child, suggesting gastrointestinal infection through breast milk as a route of ANDV person-to-person transmission.

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