Characterization of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome caused by hantaviruses, Estonia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1773-1776

  Golovljova, Irina ^a,b,c   Vasilenko, Veera ^a   Mittženkov, Vassili ^a   Prükk, Tiina ^d   Seppet, Elviira ^d   Vene, Sirkka ^b   Settergren, Bo ^e   Plyusnin, Alexander ^b,f   Lundkvist, Åke ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CRUSH SYNDROME; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTONIA; HANTAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PUUMALA VIRUS; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 36248981042     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1311.070221     Document Type: Article

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