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Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome—The 25th Anniversary of the Four Corners Outbreak
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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Intersecting Paths of Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) shares common clinicopathologic features with other severe pulmonary illnesses. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome was diagnosed in 2 patients in Arizona, USA, suspected of dying from infection with
Tais M. Wilson +9 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012 We report the results of an investigation of a small outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in 2002 in the Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, where the disease had not previously been reported. Two cases were initially reported.
Joel M Montgomery +11 more
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Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Traveler Returning from Nepal to Spain
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 +13 more
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Dihydropyridine-derived calcium channel blocker as a promising anti-hantavirus entry inhibitor
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 Hantaviruses, the causative agent for two types of hemorrhagic fevers, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), are distributed from Eurasia to America.
Bin Wang +17 more
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Hantavirus Transmission in the United States
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1997 In 1996, investigation of a hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) outbreak in southern Argentina found evidence of person-to-person transmission of a hantavirus.
Rachel M. Wells +10 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 +3 more
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Characteristics of Hantaviruses as Causative Agents of the Zoonotic Hemorrhagic Fevers
Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2017 Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) has been a major concern for public health in different countries of the Euroasian continent for decades.
A. A. Ishmukhametov +6 more
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Biology, 2023 Sin Nombre virus (SNV) is an emerging virus that was first discovered in the Four Corners region of the United States in 1993. The virus causes a disease known as Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS), sometimes called Hantavirus Cardiopulmonary Syndrome ...
Andrew T. Jacob +8 more
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Hantavirus Infection in Anajatuba, Maranhão, Brazil
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004 In 2000, the first outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome was recognized in the Brazilian Amazon (Maranhão State). An epidemiologic study identified a 13.3% prevalence of hantavirus-specific immunoglobulin G. The analysis of risk factors suggests that
Wellington S. Mendes +9 more
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