Fig. 1

Study area. The Northwestern Argentina Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) endemic area, which induces the eastern half of Jujuy, Salta, and Tucumán provinces (A). The input box shows the four endemic areas for the HPS in Argentina (a). This figure was created in QGIS V.3.20.2, using free and freely available shapefiles and images (Additional file 1)