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Pathogenic rodent-borne hantaviruses cause in humans generalized infections that involve the peripheral vascular bed and severely affect their permeability. We describe a 30-yr-old male patient with clinical symptoms characterizing five conventional phases of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome after an uncommonly severe hantavirus infection with the
Dusan, Ferluga, Alenka, Vizjak
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When hantaviruses hit the headlines with the advent in May 1993 of a new disease in the USA, and later in the New World from Canada to south Argentina, called "hantavirus pulmonary syndrome" (HPS), speculations in the lay press rose from the very beginning around the possibilities of a biological warfare (BW) weapon.
Sarah, Hawes, John P, Seabolt
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Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a rodent-borne zoonotic disease that is endemic throughout the Americas. Agricultural activities increase exposure to wild rodents, especially for sugarcane cutters.
Renata Malachini Maia +9 more
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Hantavirus disease is caused by the hantavirus, which is an RNA virus belonging to the family Bunyaviridae. Hantavirus disease is an anthropozoonotic infection transmitted through the inhalation of aerosols from the excreta of hantavirus-infected rodents.
João Bosco Lima Gimaque +9 more
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Los hantavirus se clasifican en dos grupos principales, hantavirus del Viejo Mundo' y del ''Nuevo Mundo' debido a la distribución geográfica de sus reservorios (roedores) (1).
Carlos R Silva-Ramos +1 more
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Serological evidence of hantavirus infection in an urban area in Mato Grosso State, Brazil
: INTRODUCTION: In Brazil, Mato Grosso (MT) has the highest number of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome cases. Our study aimed to identify anti-hantavirus antibodies in the sera of patients from Sinop, MT, presenting with acute febrile illness ...
Carla Julia da Silva Pessoa Vieira +7 more
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Atypical case of hantavirus infection in Sri Lanka mimicking leptospirosis: a case report
Background Hantavirus infection is an emerging zoonotic infection which has two characteristic patterns of presentation: hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.
Chamara Dalugama +3 more
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Hantavirus in Panama: Twenty Years of Epidemiological Surveillance Experience
Twenty years have passed since the emergence of hantavirus zoonosis in Panama at the beginning of this millennium. We provide an overview of epidemiological surveillance of hantavirus disease (hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and hantavirus fever) during ...
Blas Armién +37 more
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Abstract This chapter looks at hantavirus in detail. Hantaviruses are among the infectious agents currently found in the United States with the potential of causing plagues. Generally, symptoms are fever, muscle pain, cough, nausea, vomiting, and headache lasting about 4 but up to 15 days and eventually requiring hospitalization of the ...
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A lethal disease model for New World hantaviruses using immunosuppressed Syrian hamsters. [PDF]
Hantavirus, the hemorrhagic causative agent of two clinical diseases, is found worldwide with variation in severity, incidence and mortality. The most lethal hantaviruses are found on the American continent where the most prevalent viruses like Andes ...
Valentijn Vergote +6 more
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