Human Hantavirus Infections, Sweden

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1395-1401

  Olsson, Gert E ^a,b   Dalerum, Fredrik ^a,c   Hörnfeldt, Birger ^b   Elgh, Fredrik ^b   Palo, Thomas R ^a,d   Juto, Per ^b   Ahlm, Clas ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CASE FINDING; CHILD; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROPATHIA EPIDEMICA; PREVALENCE; PUUMALA VIRUS; RODENT; RURAL POPULATION; SWEDEN; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS SHEDDING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOLE;

EID: 0242292076     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0911.030275     Document Type: Article

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