Article
Characterization of a new Puumala virus genotype associated with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.
Virus genes - 1 Oct 2006
Bahr Udo, Zeier Martin, Muranyi Walter
Abstract excerpt
Hantavirus serotype Puumala (PUUV) is the etiologic agent of Nephropathia epidemica (NE), a mild variant of Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS) in Europe, with lethality rates up to 1% among human patients. The serotype PUUV is composed of numerous geographically restricted strains forming a great number of phylogeographic lineages, sublineages, variants, and clusters. We describe a new, geographically...
Topics
- Adult
- Base Sequence
- Genotype
- Germany
- Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome
- Humans
- Kidney
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Puumala virus
- Sequence Alignment
