Tula hantavirus infection in a hospitalised patient, France, June 2015.

Tula Hantavirus Infection in Immunocompromised Host, Czech Republic

We report molecular evidence of Tula hantavirus as an etiologic agent of pulmonary-renal syndrome in an immunocompromised patient. Acute hantavirus infection was confirmed by using serologic and molecular methods. Sequencing revealed Tula virus genome RNA in the patient's blood. This case shows that Tula virus can cause serious disease in humans.

Occurrence of renal and pulmonary syndrome in a region of northeast Germany where Tula hantavirus circulates.

Hantavirus species Tula (TULV) is carried by European common voles (Microtus spp.). Its pathogenic potential for humans is unknown. In a rural region of northeast Germany, a 43-year-old man became ill with fever, renal syndrome, and pneumonia. Typing of late acute- and convalescent-phase sera by focus reduction neutralization assay revealed the presence of neutralizing antibodies against TULV. ...

Isolation and characterization of Tula virus, a distinct serotype in the genus

A Vero E6 cell culture isolate of Tula virus (TUL), a hantavirus first detected in European common voles (hficrotus arvalis and hr. rossiaemeridionolis) by RT-PCR was obtained after initial passaging of TULinfected vole lung samples in laboratory-colonized hl. arvalis. TUL was defined as a classical serotype by a cross-focus-reduction neutralization test (FRNT) and was also shown to be distinct...

Completion of the Tula hantavirus genome sequence: properties of the L segment and heterogeneity found in the 3' termini of S and L genome RNAs.

In this study the L segment and the 5' and 3' termini of the S, M and L segments of the prototype Tula hantavirus (TUL) were sequenced, thus completing the first determination of the genome sequence of a hantavirus that has not been linked to any human disease. The TUL L segment comprises 6541 nt with one ORF of 6459 nt in the antigenome sense. This ORF potentially encodes a 2153 aa protein wit...

Tula Hantavirus Nucleocapsid Protein