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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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Twenty-Year Summary of Surveillance for Human Hantavirus Infections, United States

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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Encephalitis due to a Hantavirus Infection

Journal of Infection, 2002
Nephropathia epidemica (NE) is the European form of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome caused by a hantavirus infection serotype Puumala. Small rodents serve as the virus reservoir. Characteristic for the clinical picture, though not always present, are a sudden onset, fever, headache and/or abdominal or lumbar pain, reduced renal function ...
Bergmann, F., Krone, Bernd, Bleich, Stefan, Prange, Hilmar, Paulus, Walter J.   +4 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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Hantavirus infection.

Uirusu, 1996
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) are rodent borne viral zoonosis caused by hantavirus infection. HFRS and HPS cause epidemic in Eurasia continent and North and South American continent, respectively. Various species of wild rodents play as a reservoir animal in nature.
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Clinical characterization of two severe cases of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) caused by hantaviruses Puumala and Dobrava-Belgrade genotype Sochi

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2016
Background Hantavirus disease belongs to the emerging infections. The clinical picture and severity of infections differ between hantavirus species and may even vary between hantavirus genotypes. The mechanisms that lead to the broad variance of severity
Ellen Krautkrämer, Christian Nusshag, Alexandra Baumann, Julia Schäfer, Jörg Hofmann, Paul Schnitzler, Boris Klempa, Peter T. Witkowski, Detlev H. Krüger, Martin Zeier   +9 more
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A Case of Mild Encephalitis/Encephalopathy with a Reversible Splenial Lesion (MERS) Caused by Hantavirus

Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials, 2022
Hantavirus, which is seen globally, is a zoonotic pathogen that causes severe clinical pictures such as fever, thrombocytopenia-related hemorrhages and acute renal failure in humans. Their natural hosts are rodents, insectivorous animals and bats.
Emsal AYDIN, Nihal TÜRKMEN TÜRKER, Ahmet Melih ŞAHİN   +2 more
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The fundamental role of endothelial cells in hantavirus pathogenesis

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2014
Hantavirus, a genus of rodent- and insectivore-borne viruses in the family Bunyaviridae, is a group of emerging zoonotic pathogens. Hantaviruses cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) in man ...
Jussi eHepojoki, Antti eVaheri, Tomas eStrandin   +2 more
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