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Hantavirus Infections in Europe

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2003
Hantaviruses are enveloped RNA viruses each carried by a specific rodent species. Three hantaviruses, Puumala, Dobrava, and Saaremaa viruses, are known to cause haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. In Europe. Puumala causes a generally mild disease, nephropathia epidemica, which presents most commonly with fever, headache, gastrointestinal symptoms,
Antti Vaheri, Antti Vaheri, Olli Vapalahti, Jukka Mustonen, Alexander Plyusnin, Alexander Plyusnin, Heikki Henttonen, Åke Lundkvist   +7 more
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Hantavirus infection in children

Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 2004
This article focuses on recent developments in knowledge about hantavirus infections and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome in children. We highlight clinical characterization, epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnostic techniques, and current alternatives for treatment and prevention.After the first description of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in ...
Marcela Ferrés, Pablo Vial
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Hantavirus Infections in Latvia

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2002
In order to investigate the presence of hantavirus infections in Latvia, 333 randomly selected human serum samples were screened using an enzyme-linked immunoassay. Fifteen samples were positive for hantavirus-specific IgG and were subsequently serotyped using a focus reduction neutralization test.
Sirkka Vene, A. Plyusnin, Gunnel Lindegren, V. Mavtchoutko, V. Kalnina, K. Brus Sjölander, Åke Lundkvist   +6 more
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Procalcitonin in hantavirus infections

Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, 2011
In hantavirus infections levels of serum leukocytes or C-reactive protein are usually elevated to levels found in serious bacterial infections. However, procalcitonin in patients infected with hantavirus has not yet been discussed in the literature.
Nina Kmet Lunacek, Tadeja Kotar, Matjaž Jereb, Tatjana Avšič-Županc, Miroslav Petrovec, Ana Saksida   +5 more
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The Epidemiology of Hantavirus Infections [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology Newsletter, 1997
Until the summer of 1993, hantaviruses were something of a curiosity for most individuals involved in medical care in the United States, and even for virologists. At that time, hantaviruses were known to be a significant cause of disease (and death) in several parts of the world, notably in China, Korea, Russia, and Scandinavia.
Xinyang Zhao, John Hay
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Hantavirus infections in Europe

2001
Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of the epidemiology of hantavirus infections in Europe and the genetics of European hantaviruses. Hantaviruses form a separate genus within the family Bunyaviridae . Unlike other members of the family, hantaviruses are not arthropode-borne agents. They are maintained in persistently infected rodent
Åke Lundkvist, Alexander Plyusnin, Detlev H. Krüger   +2 more
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Incidence of hantavirus infections in Belgium

Virus Research, 2001
Over the last two decades, and from the moment that serological detection was possible, human hantavirus infections have been documented in most European countries. This paper summarises the available data on hantavirus cases in Belgium. These data enable the demonstration of the existence of a 3-year epidemic cycle in Belgium, which is apparently ...
Heyman, P., Vervoort, T., Escutenaire, S., Degrave, E., Konings, J., Vandenvelde, C., Verhagen, R.   +6 more
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Uncovering the mysteries of hantavirus infections

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2013
Hantaviruses are negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses that infect many species of rodents, shrews, moles and bats. Infection in these reservoir hosts is almost asymptomatic, but some rodent-borne hantaviruses also infect humans, causing either haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) or hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS).
Vaheri, A., Strandin, T., Hepojoki, J., Sironen, T., Henttonen, Heikki, Mäkelä, S., Mustonen, J.   +6 more
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Hantavirus infection and biodiversity in the Americas

Oecologia, 2019
Species diversity has been proposed to decrease prevalence of disease in a wide variety of host-pathogen systems, in a phenomenon labeled the dilution effect. This phenomenon was first proposed and tested for vector-borne diseases but was later extended to directly transmitted parasite systems such as hantavirus. Though there seems to be clear evidence
María Victoria Vadell, Isabel Elisa Gómez Villafañe, Isabel Elisa Gómez Villafañe, Anibal Eduardo Carbajo   +3 more
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