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Plasma Exchange for Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: A Mechanistic Case for an Untested Intervention. [PDF]

J Clin Apher
ABSTRACT Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) carries a case fatality rate of 35%–40% and has no approved pharmacologic treatment. Its pathophysiology is rooted in the plasma compartment: cytokines, viral antigens, immune complexes, and platelet‐binding glycoproteins circulate as drivers of immunopathologic endothelial injury, noncardiogenic pulmonary ...
Nadim M, Mirzabeigi Y, Akgun Y.
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Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Traveler Returning from Nepal to Spain [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020
Most human hantavirus infections occur in Asia, but some cases have been described in Europe in travelers returning from Asia. We describe a case of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in a previously healthy traveler occurring shortly after he returned to ...
Elena Sulleiro, Maria Luisa Aznar, Núria Serre-Delcor, Fernando Salvador, Adrian Sanchez-Montalvá, Mateu Espasa, Daniel Molina, Fernando de Ory, M. Paz Sanchez-Seco, Israel Molina, Candido Diaz-Lagares, Miguel J. Martinez, Tomàs Pumarola, Inés Oliveira   +13 more
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Factors associated with laboratory confirmation of suspected hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in southern Argentina: a retrospective observational case–control study [PDF]

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Objective. To identify demographic, occupational, exposure, clinical, and laboratory factors independently associated with diagnostic confirmation of hantavirus infection by RT-PCR or IgM among patients with suspected hantavirus pulmonary syndrome ...
Fernando Tortosa, Victoria Lucca, Rodrigo Bustamante, Yesica Espasandin, Ayelén Iglesias, Ariel Izcovich, Martin Lammel   +6 more
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Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome—The 25th Anniversary of the Four Corners Outbreak [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
During the spring of 1993, a mysterious respiratory disease struck the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. Persons who became ill were generally young and previously healthy before succumbing to an acute febrile illness that began with
Charles J. Van Hook
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Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and coexisting hantavirus pulmonary syndrome

Kidney Research and Clinical Practice, 2012
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is an acute viral disease with fever, hemorrhage and renal failure caused by hantavirus infection. Hantavirus induces HFRS or hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS).
Young Min Hong, Jin Chang Moon, Hee Chan Yang, Kyung Pyo Kang, Won Kim, Sung Kwang Park, Sik Lee   +6 more
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The Changing Landscape of Hantavirus Infections: A Narrative Review of Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Countermeasures. [PDF]

Rev Med Virol
ABSTRACT Hantaviruses are emerging zoonotic pathogens of increasing global public health significance. Their epidemiological landscape is rapidly changing due to ecological disruption, climate variability, urbanisation, and evolving human–animal interfaces.
De Maria F, Branda F, Ceccarelli G, Scarpa F, Ciccozzi M, Russo A.   +5 more
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Beyond the Kidney and Lung: Cutaneous and Mucosal Clues to Human Hantavirus Disease. [PDF]

Int J Dermatol
Rodent exposure and aerosolized excreta can lead to hantavirus infection with systemic endothelial injury and capillary leak, resulting in thrombocytopenia and syndromes such as HPS/HCPS and HFRS/NE. Early dermatologic and mucosal findings, including flushing, conjunctival injection, petechiae/purpura, and mucosal bleeding, may provide important clues ...
Gallo G, Quaglino P, Ribero S.
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Hantavirus in Dentistry: Occupational Exposure Considerations and a Proposed Tiered Infection Prevention and Control Framework—A Narrative Review [PDF]

Clin Exp Dent Res
ABSTRACT Objective The aim of this study is to synthesize evidence on hantavirus transmission and occupational exposure pathways relevant to dentistry, and to propose an evidence‐informed tiered infection prevention and control (IPC) framework that distinguishes established from theoretical risk.
Vafaei P, Banakar M, Alam M, Askari M, Golkar M.   +4 more
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Diagnostic and clinical challenges of hantavirus-associated acute kidney injury [PDF]

European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Introduction: Hantavirus infection is an uncommon zoonosis in Europe but remains an important cause of acute kidney injury, particularly in patients with environmental exposure to rodents.
Nouha Ghriss, Charlotte Mussini, Sonia Kammoun, Chadi Azar, Pierre Leroy, Franck Pourcine, Nabil Belfeki   +6 more
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OVERVIEW ON HANTAVIRUS CARDIOPULMONARY SYNDROME: IS IT THREATENED TO ARAB COUNTRIES INCLUDING EGYPT? [PDF]

Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 2022
Orthohantavirus is a genus of single-stranded, enveloped, negative-sense RNA viruses in thefamily Hantaviridae within the order Bunyavirales. Members are called orthohantaviruses orsimply hantaviruses. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), Hantavirus is a
AYMAN MORSY, HUSSEIN HUSSEIN, AHMED AHMED, Tosson Morsy   +3 more
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