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Comment on Jameson et al.: Prevalence of Antibodies against Hantaviruses in Serum and Saliva of Adults Living or Working on Farms in Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Viruses, 2014
This British hantavirus IgG prevalence study, aimed at 119 asymptomatic farmers in England, and using indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) as screening technique, concluded that rat-transmitted Seoul virus (SEOV) might be the main suspect as ...
Jan Clement, Paula McKenna, Valentijn Vergote, Marc Van Ranst   +3 more
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Two Atypical Cases of Hantavirus Infection: Experience from a Tertiary Care Unit in Sri Lanka

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2021
Hantaviruses are a large family of enveloped viruses with two medically important families Cricetidae and Muridae which are known to cause rodent-borne diseases worldwide.
S. Rupasinghe, S. Bowattage, L. Herath, A. Rajaratnam   +3 more
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Hantavirus infection in patients with fever of unknown origin and in small mammals in the Baikal region

Acta Biomedica Scientifica, 2017
Background. Hantavirus infections are one of the most important zoonotic diseases in the Russian Federation. However, the pathogenicity of Hantaviruses circulating in Siberia is still unknown.
N. A. Bolotova, M. A. Khasnatinov, A. V. Lyapunov, E. L. Manzarova, I. S. Solovarov, L. N. Yashina, R. .. Yanagihara, G. A. Danchinova   +7 more
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The Ecology and Phylogeny of Hosts Drive the Enzootic Infection Cycles of Hantaviruses

Viruses, 2019
Hantaviruses (Family: Hantaviridae; genus: Orthohantavirus) and their associated human diseases occur globally and differ according to their geographic distribution.
Matthew T. Milholland, Iván Castro-Arellano, Gabriel E. Garcia-Peña, James N. Mills   +3 more
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Hantavirus Infection with Renal Failure and Proteinuria, Colorado, USA, 2019

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
In North America, hantaviruses commonly cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Clinical descriptions of hantavirus-associated renal disease in the Americas are scarce.
Swati Chand, Sangharsha Thapa, Shelley Kon, Steven C. Johnson, Eric M. Poeschla, Carlos Franco-Paredes, Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales, Salim Mattar, Andrés F. Henao-Martínez   +8 more
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Endothelial cell permeability during hantavirus infection involves factor XII-dependent increased activation of the kallikrein-kinin system. [PDF]

PLoS Pathogens, 2013
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) are diseases caused by hantavirus infections and are characterized by vascular leakage due to alterations of the endothelial barrier.
Shannon L Taylor, Victoria Wahl-Jensen, Anna Maria Copeland, Peter B Jahrling, Connie S Schmaljohn   +4 more
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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, Suneth Buddhika Agampodi, Anoma Kumari Bandaranayaka, Sumudu Priyankara, Joshep M Vinetz   +4 more
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Could hantavirus circulation superpose areas of highly endemic vaccinia virus outbreaks? A retrospective seroepidemiological study in State of Minas Gerais

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2014
Introduction Hantavirus infections have been described in several regions in Brazil through seroepidemiological studies.
Giliane de Souza Trindade, André Tavares da Silva Fernandes, Galileu Barbosa Costa, Poliana de Oliveira Figueiredo, Jônatas Santos Abrahão, Erna Geessien Kroon, Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo, Flávio Guimarães da Fonseca   +7 more
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Spatial and temporal patterns of human Puumala virus (PUUV) infections in Germany [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
Background Worldwide, the number of recorded human hantavirus infections as well as the number of affected countries is on the rise. In Europe, most human hantavirus infections are caused by the Puumala virus (PUUV), with bank voles (Myodes glareolus) as
Sarah Cunze, Judith Kochmann, Thomas Kuhn, Raphael Frank, Dorian D. Dörge, Sven Klimpel   +5 more
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A retrospective serologic survey of hantavirus infections in the county of Cássia dos Coqueiros, State of São Paulo, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2012
INTRODUCTION: In recent years, hantavirus infections producing severe diseases have obtained an increased attention from public health authorities from the countries of Eurasia to the Americas.
Soraya Jabur Badra, Felipe Gonçalves Mota Maia, Glauciane Garcia Figueiredo, Gilberto Sabino dos Santos Junior, Gelse Mazzoni Campos, Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo, Afonso Dinis Costa Passos   +6 more
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