Article
[Hantavirus infection epidemiology in Belgium].
Bulletin et memoires de l'Academie royale de medecine de Belgique - 1 Jan 2001
Escutenaire S, Pastoret P P
Abstract excerpt
In Europe, Puumala (PUU) is a hantavirus responsible for a human disease called nephropathia epidemica and its natural reservoir is the red bank vole, (Clethrionomys glareolus). Although the population densities and the prevalence rates of infection were high in red bank voles in southern Belgium during the 1996 and 1999 epidemic years, the percentages of infected rodents were low in 1997 and 1998, when only a...
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