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Puumala hantavirus genetic variability in an endemic region (Northern Sweden).
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 May 2008
Johansson Patrik, Olsson Gert E, Low Hwee-Teng, Bucht Göran, Ahlm Clas, Juto Per, Elgh Fredrik
Abstract excerpt
Puumala hantavirus (PUUV), naturally harboured and shed by bank voles (Myodes [Clethrionomys] glareolus), is the etiological agent to nephropathia epidemica (NE), a mild haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. Both host and virus are found throughout much of the European continent and in northern Sweden NE is the second most prevalent serious febrile viral infection after influenza. The reliability of diagnostics...
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