Hantavirus Infections-Treatment and Prevention. [PDF]
Hantavirus infection is an emerging zoonosis and there are two main clinical presentations, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Although Hantavirus infections have a worldwide distribution with a high mortality rate, a safe and effective vaccine or an antiviral drug against the Hantavirus disease is yet
Dheerasekara K +2 more
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Hantavirus Infections among Military Forces. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Introduction Hantaviruses cause two kinds of clinical syndromes. Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome is caused by Hantaan virus in Asia, Puumala virus (PUUV) and Dobrava virus in Europe, and Seoul virus worldwide.
Mustonen J, Henttonen H, Vaheri A.
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Influence of Climatic Factors on Human Hantavirus Infections in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic Review [PDF]
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]
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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Over the past few decades understanding and recognition of hantavirus infection has greatly improved worldwide, but both the amplitude and the magnitude of hantavirus outbreaks have been increasing. Several novel hantaviruses with unknown pathogenic potential have been identified in a variety of insectivore hosts.
Avšič-Županc, T. +2 more
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Vulnerability of Brazilian municipalities to hantavirus infections based on multi-criteria decision analysis. [PDF]
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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Human Hantavirus Infections in the Netherlands [PDF]
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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Twenty-Year Summary of Surveillance for Human Hantavirus Infections, United States [PDF]
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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The hanta hunting study: Underdiagnosis of puumala hantavirus infections in symptomatic non-travelling leptospirosis-suspected patients in the Netherlands, in 2010 and April to November 2011 [PDF]
Leptospirosis and haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) are hard to distinguish clinically since these two important rodent-borne zoonoses share hallmark symptoms such as renal failure and haemorrhage.
Goeijenbier, M. (Marco) +11 more
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Detection of probable hantavirus infections in clinically suspected dengue patients in a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka [PDF]
Background Acute febrile illnesses, including dengue fever, are common causes of hospitalization in Sri Lanka. However, a significant proportion of clinically suspected dengue cases tested negative for dengue-specific markers, raising concerns about ...
Erandi Ekanayake +10 more
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