Puumala hantavirus viremia determined by real - time RT - PCR in patients with 2 hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome 3 4

Hemorrhagic Fever and Renal Syndrome Using Samples from Patients with Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase PCR Puumala Hantavirus Viremia Diagnosed by

Puumala hantavirus viremia diagnosed by real-time reverse transcriptase PCR using samples from patients with hemorrhagic fever and renal syndrome.

Puumala virus (PUUV) is the endemic hantavirus in northern Sweden and causes nephropathia epidemica (NE), a milder form of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. There is a need for fast and reliable diagnostics to differentiate the disease from other infections. By aligning virus RNA sequences isolated from 11 different bank voles and one human patient, we designed a real-time reverse transcri...

Molecular Diagnosis of Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome Caused by Puumala Virus.

Rodent-borne hantaviruses cause two severe acute diseases: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Eurasia, and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS; also called hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome [HCPS]) in the Americas. Puumala virus (PUUV) is the most common causative agent of HFRS in Europe. Current routine diagnostic methods are based on serological analyses and can yield inconclusi...

Investigation of Hantavirus Infections among Cchfv Negative Cases in the Western Black Sea Region of Turkey

Objective: The Hantaviruses and Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) are members of the Bunyaviridae family. Hantavirus infections causes two main febrile diseases: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS). Hantaviruses are transmitted by rodents. In 2009, a hantavirus outbreak occurred in the Western Black Sea region of Turkey. For th...

A226V Strains of Chikungunya Virus, Réunion Island, 2010

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