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A new Puumala hantavirus subtype in rodents associated with an outbreak of Nephropathia epidemica in South-East Germany in 2004.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Dec 2006
Essbauer S, Schmidt J, Conraths F J, Friedrich R, Koch J, Hautmann W, Pfeffer M, Wölfel R, Finke J, Dobler G, Ulrich R
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A micro-epidemic of hantavirus infections occurred in Lower Bavaria, South-East Germany, starting in April 2004. While only three cases were registered from 2001 to 2003, a dramatically increased number of clinically apparent human hantavirus infections (n=38) was observed in 2004, plus seven add...
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