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Kuhn JH, Schmaljohn CS. A Brief History of Bunyaviral Family Hantaviridae. Diseases 2023; 11:38. [PMID: 36975587 PMCID: PMC10047430 DOI: 10.3390/diseases11010038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
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The discovery of Hantaan virus as an etiologic agent of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in South Korea in 1978 led to identification of related pathogenic and nonpathogenic rodent-borne viruses in Asia and Europe. Their global distribution was recognized in 1993 after connecting newly discovered relatives of these viruses to hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the Americas. The 1971 description of the shrew-infecting Hantaan-virus-like Thottapalayam virus was long considered an anomaly. Today, this virus and many others that infect eulipotyphlans, bats, fish, rodents, and reptiles are classified among several genera in the continuously expanding family Hantaviridae.
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- Jens H. Kuhn
- Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, Division of Clinical Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick, Division of Clinical Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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Kikuchi F, Senoo K, Arai S, Tsuchiya K, Sơn NT, Motokawa M, Ranorosoa MC, Bawm S, Lin KS, Suzuki H, Unno A, Nakata K, Harada M, Tanaka-Taya K, Morikawa S, Suzuki M, Mizutani T, Yanagihara R. Rodent-Borne Orthohantaviruses in Vietnam, Madagascar and Japan. Viruses 2021; 13:1343. [PMID: 34372549 PMCID: PMC8310111 DOI: 10.3390/v13071343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2021] [Revised: 07/08/2021] [Accepted: 07/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Hantaviruses are harbored by multiple small mammal species in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. To ascertain the geographic distribution and virus-host relationships of rodent-borne hantaviruses in Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Madagascar, RNAlater™-preserved lung tissues of 981 rodents representing 40 species, collected in 2011-2017, were analyzed for hantavirus RNA by RT-PCR. Our data showed Hantaan orthohantavirus Da Bie Shan strain in the Chinese white-bellied rat (Niviventer confucianus) in Vietnam, Thailand; orthohantavirus Anjo strain in the black rat (Rattus rattus) in Madagascar; and Puumala orthohantavirus Hokkaido strain in the grey-sided vole (Myodes rufocanus) in Japan. The Hokkaido strain of Puumala virus was also detected in the large Japanese field mouse (Apodemus speciosus) and small Japanese field mouse (Apodemus argenteus), with evidence of host-switching as determined by co-phylogeny mapping.
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- Fuka Kikuchi
- Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8538, Japan; (F.K.); (T.M.)
- Center for Surveillance, Immunization, and Epidemiologic Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan; (K.S.); (K.T.-T.); (M.S.)
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- Center for Surveillance, Immunization, and Epidemiologic Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan; (K.S.); (K.T.-T.); (M.S.)
- Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan
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- Center for Surveillance, Immunization, and Epidemiologic Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan; (K.S.); (K.T.-T.); (M.S.)
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- Laboratory of Bioresources, Applied Biology Co., Ltd., Tokyo 107-0062, Japan
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- Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam;
- Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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- The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan;
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- Mention Foresterie et Environnement, Ecole Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d’Antananarivo, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar;
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- Department of Pharmacology and Parasitology, University of Veterinary Science, Nay Pyi Taw 15013, Myanmar;
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- Department of Aquaculture and Aquatic Disease, University of Veterinary Science, Nay Pyi Taw 15013, Myanmar;
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- Laboratory of Ecology and Genetics, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan;
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- Local Independent Administrative Agency Hokkaido Research Organization, Bibai 079-0198, Japan; (A.U.); (K.N.)
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- Local Independent Administrative Agency Hokkaido Research Organization, Bibai 079-0198, Japan; (A.U.); (K.N.)
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- Laboratory Animal Center, Osaka City University, Sumiyoshi, Osaka 545-8585, Japan;
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- Center for Surveillance, Immunization, and Epidemiologic Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan; (K.S.); (K.T.-T.); (M.S.)
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Okayama University of Science, Imabari 794-8555, Japan;
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- Center for Surveillance, Immunization, and Epidemiologic Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan; (K.S.); (K.T.-T.); (M.S.)
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- Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo 183-8538, Japan; (F.K.); (T.M.)
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- Department of Pediatrics, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA;
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Lee SH, No JS, Kim WK, Gajda E, Perec-Matysiak A, Kim JA, Hildebrand J, Yanagihara R, Song JW. Molecular Epidemiology and Genetic Diversity of Orthohantaviruses in Small Mammals in Western Poland. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2020; 103:193-199. [PMID: 32314690 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Orthohantaviruses are negative-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses harbored by multiple small mammals. Dobrava-Belgrade virus (DOBV) and Puumala virus (PUUV) cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Europe. In Poland, serological surveys have demonstrated antibodies against DOBV and PUUV in patients with HFRS. Molecular evidence of DOBV and PUUV has been found in Apodemus flavicollis and Myodes glareolus, respectively, in southeastern Poland, and Seewis virus (SWSV) has been reported in Sorex araneus in central Poland. However, data on the geographic distribution and phylogeny of orthohantaviruses are unavailable for other regions in Poland. To ascertain the prevalence and genetic diversity of orthohantaviruses in western and northern Poland, lung tissues from 106 small mammals were analyzed for the presence of orthohantavirus RNA. DOBV and SWSV were detected in two of 42 (4.8%) Apodemus agrarius and in three of 10 (30%) S. araneus, respectively. Phylogenetic analyses of partial L- and S-segment sequences of DOBV indicated a shared genetic lineage with the Kurkino genotype from Slovakia, Russia, and Hungary, whereas the partial M segment of DOBV clustered with the Kurkino genotype from Germany. Phylogenetic relationships of the SWSV L and S segments showed a geographic lineage with SWSV strains from central Poland, Czech Republic, and Germany. In conclusion, the study provides insights into the molecular prevalence, phylogenetic diversity, and evolutionary relationship of DOBV in A. agrarius and SWSV in S. araneus. This report increases awareness among physicians for HFRS outbreaks in western Poland.
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- Seung-Ho Lee
- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Medical Science Research, College of Medicine, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea.,Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Parasitology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pediatrics, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Hantavirus reservoirs: current status with an emphasis on data from Brazil. Viruses 2014; 6:1929-73. [PMID: 24784571 PMCID: PMC4036540 DOI: 10.3390/v6051929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2013] [Revised: 02/03/2014] [Accepted: 02/07/2014] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Since the recognition of hantavirus as the agent responsible for haemorrhagic fever in Eurasia in the 1970s and, 20 years later, the descovery of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in the Americas, the genus Hantavirus has been continually described throughout the World in a variety of wild animals. The diversity of wild animals infected with hantaviruses has only recently come into focus as a result of expanded wildlife studies. The known reservoirs are more than 80, belonging to 51 species of rodents, 7 bats (order Chiroptera) and 20 shrews and moles (order Soricomorpha). More than 80genetically related viruses have been classified within Hantavirus genus; 25 recognized as human pathogens responsible for a large spectrum of diseases in the Old and New World. In Brazil, where the diversity of mammals and especially rodents is considered one of the largest in the world, 9 hantavirus genotypes have been identified in 12 rodent species belonging to the genus Akodon, Calomys, Holochilus, Oligoryzomys, Oxymycterus, Necromys and Rattus. Considering the increasing number of animals that have been implicated as reservoirs of different hantaviruses, the understanding of this diversity is important for evaluating the risk of distinct hantavirus species as human pathogens.
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ABSTRACT: Hantaviruses productively infect endothelial cells in their rodent reservoirs and humans, but the infection only causes disease in humans – hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. Despite the enormous progress that has been made in understanding the pathogenesis and immune responses of hantavirus infection, there is a large gap in our molecular-based knowledge of hantaviral proteins in their structures, functions and the mechanisms that facilitate their entry, replication and assembly. Importantly, we know little about the specific viral determinants and viral protein–host interactions that drive differences noted in immune responses between the reservoir and humans. This review discusses our current understanding and future work needed for unraveling the biology of these viruses in their reservoirs and in humans.
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- Ryan C McAllister
- Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Louisville, KY 40202, USA
- Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense & Emerging Infectious Diseases, KY, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Louisville, KY 40202, USA
- Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense & Emerging Infectious Diseases, KY, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Louisville, KY 40202, USA
- Departments of Microbiology & Immunology & Pharmacology & Toxicology, Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense & Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville, Clinical & Translational Research Building, 505 South Hancock Avenue, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
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Papa A. Dobrava-Belgrade virus: Phylogeny, epidemiology, disease. Antiviral Res 2012; 95:104-17. [DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2012.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2011] [Revised: 05/08/2012] [Accepted: 05/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Hantaviruses are enzootic viruses that maintain persistent infections in their rodent hosts without apparent disease symptoms. The spillover of these viruses to humans can lead to one of two serious illnesses, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. In recent years, there has been an improved understanding of the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and natural history of these viruses following an increase in the number of outbreaks in the Americas. In this review, current concepts regarding the ecology of and disease associated with these serious human pathogens are presented. Priorities for future research suggest an integration of the ecology and evolution of these and other host-virus ecosystems through modeling and hypothesis-driven research with the risk of emergence, host switching/spillover, and disease transmission to humans.
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Klempa B, Schütt M, Auste B, Labuda M, Ulrich R, Meisel H, Krüger DH. First molecular identification of human Dobrava virus infection in central Europe. J Clin Microbiol 2004; 42:1322-5. [PMID: 15004109 PMCID: PMC356881 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.42.3.1322-1325.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2003] [Revised: 11/09/2003] [Accepted: 12/14/2003] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Viral RNA was amplified by reverse transcription-PCR from a patient suffering from hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Germany. The virus strain could be assigned to the Dobrava hantavirus (DOBV). This is the first molecular identification of human infection by DOBV in central Europe and the first proof that a virus strain related to the DOBV-Aa lineage, carried by Apodemus agrarius rodents, is able to cause HFRS.
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- Boris Klempa
- Institute of Virology, University Hospital Charité, D-10098 Berlin, Germany
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Billecocq A, Coudrier D, Boué F, Combes B, Zeller H, Artois M, Bouloy M. Expression of the nucleoprotein of the Puumala virus from the recombinant Semliki Forest virus replicon: characterization and use as a potential diagnostic tool. CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY IMMUNOLOGY 2003; 10:658-63. [PMID: 12853401 PMCID: PMC164253 DOI: 10.1128/cdli.10.4.658-663.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2003] [Revised: 04/17/2003] [Accepted: 05/05/2003] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Puumala virus (Bunyaviridae family, Hantavirus genus) causes a mild form of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) called nephropathia epidemica in northern and central Europe. Serological tests are used for diagnosis, but antigen production is difficult because the virus grows poorly in tissue culture. We expressed the N protein (nucleoprotein) of Puumala virus via the Semliki Forest virus (SFV) replicon in mammalian cells and compared its antigenic properties with those of the native antigen derived from Puumala virus-infected cells. Detection of immunoglobulin G or immunoglobulin M by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), micro -capture ELISA, and indirect immunofluorescence assay was (at least) as effective with the recombinant antigen as with the native antigen when HFRS patient sera or organ washes from wild rodents were tested. No nonspecific reaction was observed. Thus, the SFV-expressed N protein of Puumala virus appears as a valid antigen, specific and sensitive for serological investigations.
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- A Billecocq
- Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Bunyaviridés, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France
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Song JW, Gligic A, Yanagihara R. Identification of Tula hantavirus in Pitymys subterraneus captured in the Cacak region of Serbia-Yugoslavia. Int J Infect Dis 2002; 6:31-6. [PMID: 12044299 DOI: 10.1016/s1201-9712(02)90133-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Atypical serum neutralizing antibody responses to prototype strains of Puumala viruses in some patients with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) have long suggested the existence of other hantaviruses in the Balkans. OBJECTIVE To determine the presence of arvicolid rodent-borne Puumala-like hantaviruses in Yugoslavia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using reverse transcript-polymerase chain reaction, Tula virus RNA was amplified from lung tissues of a European pine vole (Pitymys subterraneus) captured in 1987, following an outbreak of HFRS in the Cacak region of Serbia-Yugoslavia. RESULTS Sequence analysis of the entire coding region of the S segment and a 948-nucleotide region of the G2 glycoprotein-encoding M segment revealed divergence of approximately 14% from Tula virus strains harbored by European common voles (Microtus arvalis) captured in Central Russia and the Czech Republic. However, nearly complete identity was found in the corresponding deduced amino acid sequences. Moreover, phylogenetic trees constructed by the maximum parsimony and neighbor-joining methods indicated that this Pitymys-borne hantavirus shared a common ancestry with other Tula virus strains. CONCLUSIONS The data demonstrate that Pitymys subterraneus also serves as a rodent reservoir of Tula virus in Serbia-Yugoslavia. To what extent this represents virus spillover from Microtus arvalis warrants further investigation.
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- Jin-Won Song
- Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Institute for Viral Diseases, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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Hjelle B, Jenison SA, Goade DE, Green WB, Feddersen RM, Scott AA. Hantaviruses: clinical, microbiologic, and epidemiologic aspects. Crit Rev Clin Lab Sci 1995; 32:469-508. [PMID: 8561891 DOI: 10.3109/10408369509082592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Hantaviruses comprise a genus of the family Bunyaviridae. Bunyaviruses are enveloped viruses with a negative-sense, tripartite RNA genome. Hantaviruses are etiologic agents for two acute and severe illnesses of man, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Each hantavirus is primarily associated with a single rodent host species or genus, and is transmitted to man through accidental inhalation or ingestion of virus-contaminated rodent excreta. The distribution of hantaviruses is worldwide. HFRS is caused by infection with Hantaan, Seoul, Dobrava/Belgrade, and Puumala hantaviruses, all of which are enzootic in murid rodents of Old World origin. HPS is caused by any of several hantavirus species associated with indigenous New World rodents of the subfamily Sigmodontinae, family Muridae. HFRS and HPS have numerous common epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory characteristics. Common features include fever, myalgia, thrombocytopenia, neutrophilia, and a profound capillary leak syndrome associated with hypotension, decreased cardiac output, and shock. Worldwide, HPS is much less common than HFRS but is associated with a higher mortality rate. Recovery from hantavirus disease is generally complete, although chronic renal insufficiency may be a rare sequel of HFRS.
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- B Hjelle
- Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, USA
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Morse SS. Hantaviruses and the hantavirus outbreak in the United States. A case study in disease emergence. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1994; 740:199-207. [PMID: 7840450 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1994.tb19870.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- S S Morse
- Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021
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