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Chapare virus

Species of virus

Summary

Species of virus

Field	Value
name	Chapare hemorrhagic fever
field	virology

Chapare virus is a virus from the family Arenaviridae which causes a hemorrhagic fever in humans known as Chapare hemorrhagic fever. It was first described after an outbreak of a novel zoonotic mammarenavirus infection occurred in the village of Samuzabeti, Chapare Province, Bolivia, in January 2003. A small number of people were infected and one person died.

In 2019, nine people became infected with the virus in the La Paz regional area, four of whom died. Nosocomial and human-to-human transmission of the virus occurred in at least three of the cases which resulted in the death of a medical intern and a gastroenterologist. Like other members of the Arenavirus family, the specific zoonotic reservoir and primary transmission vector is suspected to be a rodent, probably the small-eared pygmy rice rat.

Virology

The Chapare virus is an enveloped virus with a bi-segmented single-stranded ambisense RNA genome. The two RNA segments are denoted Small (S) and Large (L). It belongs to the New World Clade B lineage of mammarenaviruses and is most closely related to the Sabia virus.

Symptoms

After an incubation period of around 9–19 days, initial symptoms include fever, malaise, headache, myalgia, back pain, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. The disease often progresses to include hemorrhagic and neurological symptoms, such as gingival hemorrhage, anaemia, leukopaenia, confusion, seizures, ecchymoses, bleeding from mucous membranes, hemorrhagic shock and multi-organ failure.

Chapare virus RNA was detected in the blood, urine, conjunctiva, semen and in broncho-alveolar and nasopharyngeal samples of the infected patients. Those who survived often had prolonged residual neurological symptoms. Viral RNA was detected in survivors up to 170 days after infection and infectious Chapare virus was obtained in a semen sample of one patient 86 days after symptom onset.

Treatment

Treatment relies mostly on supportive care and early diagnosis. Specific antiviral therapy for Chapare virus infection has yet to be properly investigated.

References

(2 July 2014). "Rename one (1) genus and twenty-five (25) species in the family ''Arenaviridae''".
(April 2008). "Chapare virus, a newly discovered arenavirus isolated from a fatal hemorrhagic fever case in Bolivia". PLOS Pathog..
"New kind of killer virus discovered in Bolivia". New Scientist.
. (16 November 2020). ["Evidence shows human transmission in deadly outbreak of mysterious disease in Bolivia"](https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/b-esh110820.php). *The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene*.
(June 2022). "Chapare hemorrhagic fever and virus detection in rodents in Bolivia in 2019". New England Journal of Medicine.
(2020-11-16). "Researchers confirm human-to-human transmission of rare virus in Bolivia".

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