Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2024)

Fort Sherman Virus Infection in Human, Peru, 2020

  • Edmilson F. de Oliveira-Filho,
  • César Augusto Cabezas Sánchez,
  • Dora Esther Valencia Manosalva,
  • Maribel Dana Figueroa Romero,
  • Nancy Susy Merino Sarmiento,
  • Adolfo Ismael Marcelo Ñique,
  • Edward Málaga-Trillo,
  • Andres Moreira-Soto,
  • Maria Paquita García Mendoza,
  • Jan Felix Drexler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3010.240124
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 10
pp. 2211 – 2214

Abstract

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Fort Sherman virus (FSV) was isolated in Panama in 1985 from a US soldier. We report a case of human FSV infection in a febrile patient from northern coastal Peru in 2020. FSV infections spanning ≈35 years and a distance of 2,000 km warrant diagnostics, genomic surveillance, and investigation of transmission cycles.

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