1 Laboratório de Vírus, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antonio Carlos, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG, 6627, Brazil.
2 URMITE CNRS, UMR 6236, IRD 3R198, Aix Marseille Universite, Marseille, France.
3 Laboratório de Vírus, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antonio Carlos, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG, 6627, Brazil. jonatas.abrahao@gmail.com.
In recent years, giant viruses belonging to the family Mimiviridae have been proposed to be infectious agents in humans. In this work we provide evidence of mimivirus genome and neutralizing antibodies detection in humans.