Abstract
Among the hantaviruses identified in Brazil that cause Hantavirus Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Syndrome are the Araraquara (ARQV), Juquitiba/Araucaria, Laguna Negra-like, Castelo dos Sonhos and Anajatuba viruses. Hantaviruses are rodent, and other small mammal, viruses that are transmitted to humans by inhalation of viral particles in aerosols from the contaminated urine, droppings or sal…