The first established focus of hantavirus infection in Poland, 2007

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-85

  Nowakowska, Anna ^a   Heyman, Paul ^b   Knap, Józef Piotr ^c,d   Burzyñski, Waldemar ^a   Witas, Małgorzata ^a  

^a Voivodeship Sanitary Epidemiological Station   (Poland)

^b QUEEN ASTRID MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c Chief Sanitary Inspectorate   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dobrava virus (DOBV); Haemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS); Hantavirus Cardio Pulmonary Syndrome (HCPS); Hantavirus diseases (HVD); Nephropathia Epidemica (NE); Puumala virus (PUUV); Rodent borne viral zoonoses

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING TENDENCY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOBRAVA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HANTAVIRUS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; POLAND; PREGNANCY; PUUMALA VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; RODENTIA; TIME FACTORS;

DOBRAVA-BELGRADE VIRUS; HANTAVIRUS; PUUMALA VIRUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 67650898289     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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