Human Hantavirus Infections in the Netherlands [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 We report the recent epidemiology and estimated seroprevalence of human hantavirus infections in the Netherlands. Sixty-two cases were reported during December 2008–December 2013.
Jussi Sane +6 more
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Hantavirus infection among children hospitalized for febrile illness suspected to be dengue in Barbados [PDF]
Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2016 Summary: Emerging picture of hantavirus infection in the South America is characterized by greater proportion of childhood infection and wider spectrum of disease from mild asymptomatic to lethal cardiopulmonary disease.
Alok Kumar +2 more
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Influence of Climatic Factors on Human Hantavirus Infections in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic Review [PDF]
Pathogens, 2021 Background: With the current climate change crisis and its influence on infectious disease transmission there is an increased desire to understand its impact on infectious diseases globally.
Kirk Osmond Douglas +3 more
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Two Atypical Cases of Hantavirus Infections from Sri Lanka [PDF]
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 +3 more
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Acute Sin Nombre Hantavirus Infection without Pulmonary Syndrome, United States [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1999 Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) occurs in most infections with Sin Nombre virus and other North American hantaviruses. We report five cases of acute hantavirus infection that did not fit the HPS case definition.
Paul T. Kitsutani +10 more
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Vulnerability of Brazilian municipalities to hantavirus infections based on multi-criteria decision analysis. [PDF]
Emerg Themes Epidemiol, 2015 Background: Hantavirus infection is an emerging zoonosis transmitted by wild rodents. In Brazil, high case-fatality rates among humans infected with hantavirus are of serious concern to public health authorities.
de Oliveira SV +7 more
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Twenty-Year Summary of Surveillance for Human Hantavirus Infections, United States [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013 In the past 20 years of surveillance for hantavirus in humans in the United States, 624 cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) have been reported, 96% of which occurred in states west of the Mississippi River.
Barbara Knust, Pierre E. Rollin
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Hantavirus infection mimicking leptospirosis: how long are we going to rely on clinical suspicion?
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2014 Hantavirus infections and leptospirosis can have similar clinical and epidemiological features. We present here a case study of a young farmer with fever during the post-flood leptospirosis outbreak in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, in 2011.
Niroshana Jathum Dahanayaka +4 more
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Potential geographic distribution of hantavirus reservoirs in Brazil. [PDF]
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 +3 more
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Viruses Run: The Evasion Mechanisms of the Antiviral Innate Immunity by Hantavirus
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Hantavirus can cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Eurasia and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in America, with high mortality and unknown mechanisms.
Yusi Zhang +8 more
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