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Two Atypical Cases of Hantavirus Infections from Sri Lanka

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2018
There are two categories of hantaviruses resulting in two distinct illnesses. The Old World (Asia and Europe) viruses give rise to hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), and the New World (Americas) viruses cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS)
N. D. B. Ehelepola, B. M. L. S. Basnayake, S. M. B. Y. Sathkumara, K. L. R. Kaluphana   +3 more
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Immunocytochemical and Ultrastructural Evidence Supporting That Andes Hantavirus (ANDV) Is Transmitted Person-to-Person Through the Respiratory and/or Salivary Pathways

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
In South America Andes hantavirus (ANDV) is hosted by the rodent Oligoryzomys longicaudatus (also known as pygmy rice rat). In humans, ANDV causes Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS), with a fatality rate of about 40%.
E. Pizarro, M. Navarrete, C. Méndez, L. Zaror, C. Mansilla, M. Tapia, C. Carrasco, Paula Salazar, R. Murúa, P. Padula, C. Otth, E. Rodríguez   +11 more
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Serological evidence of hantavirus infection in rural and urban regions in the state of Amazonas, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2012
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, Michele de Souza Bastos, Wornei Silva Miranda Braga, Cintia Mara Costa de Oliveira, Márcia da Costa Castilho, Regina Maria Pinto de Figueiredo, Elizabeth dos Santos Galusso, Evaulino Ferreira Itapirema, Luiz Tadeu Moraes de Figueiredo, Maria Paula Gomes Mourão   +9 more
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Hantavirus in Panama: Twenty Years of Epidemiological Surveillance Experience

Viruses, 2023
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, Carlos Muñoz, Hector Cedeño, Jacqueline R. Salazar, Tybbyssay P. Salinas, Publio González, José Trujillo, Deyanira Sánchez, Jamileth Mariñas, Ayvar Hernández, Harmodio Cruz, Leisy Yovany Villarreal, Elba Grimaldo, Samuel González, Heydy Nuñez, Susana Hesse, Fernando Rivera, George Edwards, Ricardo Chong, Ovidio Mendoza, Martín Meza, Milagro Herrera, Rudick Kant, Raul Esquivel, Dora Estripeaut, Demetrio Serracín, Bernardino Denis, Esthefani Robles, Yaxelis Mendoza, Gloria Gonzalez, Felicia Tulloch, Juan Miguel Pascale, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Joseph A. Cook, Anibal G. Armién, Fernando Gracia, Gladys Alicia Guerrero, Itza de Mosca   +37 more
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Hantavirus infection with pulmonary symptoms in north central part of Sri Lanka

Journal of Clinical Virology Plus, 2021
Background: Classical hantavirus infections present as haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Euro-Asia and as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in America.  Mixed clinical features have been reported from certain novel hantavirus infections.
Rohitha Muthugala, Kalpa Dheerasekara, Nandika Harischandra, Darshana Wickramasinghe, Mudhitha Abeykoon, Dhanushka Dasanayake, Aresha Manamperi, Sunethra Gunasena, Geethani Galagoda   +8 more
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Serum LPS Associated with Hantavirus and Dengue Disease Severity in Barbados

Viruses, 2019
Hantavirus and dengue virus (DENV) infections are caused by RNA viruses which infect immune systems’ cells including monocytes, macrophages and dendritic cells and occur year-round in Barbados.
Kirk Osmond Douglas, Thelma Alafia Samuels, Marquita Gittens-St. Hilaire   +2 more
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The ecological dynamics of hantavirus diseases: From environmental variability to disease prevention largely based on data from China

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
Hantaviruses can cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in the Americas and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Eurasia. In recent decades, repeated outbreaks of hantavirus disease have led to public concern and have created a global ...
H. Tian, N. Stenseth
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Potential geographic distribution of hantavirus reservoirs in Brazil.

PLoS ONE, 2013
Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome is an emerging zoonosis in Brazil. Human infections occur via inhalation of aerosolized viral particles from excreta of infected wild rodents.
Stefan Vilges de Oliveira, Luis E Escobar, A Townsend Peterson, Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves   +3 more
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UPDATES OF HANTAVIRUS INFECTION RISK AT RODENT-HUMAN INTERFACES IN CAMBODIA

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
Intro: Rodent-borne hantaviruses are pathogenic in humans and remain a threat for public health. In Asia, data are available mostly from oriental countries, but limited in South-East Asia.
J. Nouhin, V. Hul, S. Ken, L. Khun, R. Lim, T. Hoem, O. Yanneth, L. Pum, K. Nguon, M. Chan, S. Ly, A. Kwasiborski, V. Hourdel, V. Caro, J.-M. Reynes, H. Auerswald, J. Vanhomwegen, A. Sakuntabhai, P. Dussart, J. Guillebaud, V. Duong   +20 more
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Hantavirus Research in Finland. [PDF]

Viruses
The articles in this Special Issue, “Hantavirus Research in Finland”, were published between 2021 and 2022 [...]
Mustonen J, Strandin T, Tietäväinen J, Pörsti I, Mäkelä S, Vaheri A.   +5 more
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