Hantaviruses and climate change

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 518-523

  Klempa, Boris ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate; Hantavirus; Insectivore; Rodent

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUUMALA VIRUS; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SCANDINAVIA; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; VIRUS SURVIVAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; VOLE; WINTER;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; HANTAVIRUS; MURIDAE; PUUMALA VIRUS; RODENTIA; SORICIDAE;

EID: 67651062563     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.02848.x     Document Type: Review

References (44)

1. Khaiboullina SF, Morzunov SP, St Jeor SC. Hantaviruses: Molecular biology, evolution and pathogenesis. Curr Mol Med 2005; 5: 773-790.
2. Kruger DH, Ulrich R, Lundkvist A. Hantavirus infections and their prevention. Microbes Infect 2001; 3: 1129-1144.
3. Maes P, Clement J, Gavrilovskaya I, Van Ranst M. Hantaviruses: immunology, treatment, and prevention. Viral Immunol 2004; 17: 481-497.
4. Gavrilovskaya IN, Gorbunova EE, Mackow NA, Mackow ER. Hantaviruses direct endothelial cell permeability by sensitizing cells to the vascular permeability factor VEGF, while angiopoietin 1 and sphingosine 1-phosphate inhibit hantavirus-directed permeability. J Virol 2008; 82: 5797-5806.
5. Kariwa H, Yoshimatsu K, Arikawa J. Hantavirus infection in East Asia. Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis 2007; 30: 341-356.
6. Lee HW, Lee PW, Johnson KM. Isolation of the etiologic agent of Korean Hemorrhagic fever. J Infect Dis 1978; 137: 298-308.
7. Johnson KM. Hantaviruses: History and overview. In: Schmaljohn CS, Nichol ST, eds, Hantaviruses, Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, Vol. 256. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001.
8. Schmaljohn C, Hjelle B. Hantaviruses: A global disease problem. Emerg Infect Dis 1997; 3: 95-104.
9. Padula PJ, Edelstein A, Miguel SD, López NM, Rossi CM, Rabinovich RD. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome outbreak in Argentina: Molecular evidence for person-to-person transmission of Andes virus. Virol 1998; 241: 323-330.
10. Martinez VP, Bellomo C, San Juan J et al. Person-to-person transmission of Andes virus. Emerg Infect Dis 2005; 11: 1848-1853.
11. Ferres M, Vial P, Marco C et al. Prospective evaluation of household contacts of persons with hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome in Chile. J Infect Dis 2007; 195: 1563-1571.
12. Plyusnin A, Vapalahti O, Vaheri A. Hantaviruses: Genome structure, expression and evolution. J Gen Virol 1996; 77: 2677-2687.
13. Ramsden C, Melo FL, Figueiredo LM, Holmes EC, Zanotto PM, VGDN Consortium. High rates of molecular evolution in hantaviruses. Mol Biol Evol 2008; 25: 1488-1492.
14. Ramsden C, Holmes EC, Charleston MA. Hantavirus evolution in relation to its rodent and insectivore hosts: No evidence for Co-divergence. Mol Biol Evol 2009; 26: 143-153.
15. Klempa B, Fichet-Calvet E, Lecompte E et al. Hantavirus in African wood mouse, Guinea. Emerg Infect Dis 2006; 12: 838-840.
16. Klempa B, Fichet-Calvet E, Lecompte E et al. Novel hantavirus sequences in shrew, Guinea. Emerg Infect Dis 2007; 13: 520-522.
17. Carey DE, Reuben R, Panicker KN, Shope RE, Myers RM. Thottapalayam virus: A presumptive arbovirus isolated from a shrew in India. Indian J Med Res 1971; 59: 1758-1760.
18. Zeller HG, Karabatsos N, Calisher CH et al. Electron microscopic and antigenic studies of uncharacterized viruses. II. Evidence suggesting the placement of viruses in the family Bunyaviridae. Arch Virol 1989; 108: 211-227.
19. Xiao SY, Leduc JW, Chu YK, Schmaljohn CS. Phylogenetic analyses of virus isolates in the genus Hantavirus, family Bunyaviridae. Virol 1994; 198: 205-217.
20. Arai S, Song J-W, Sumibcay L et al. Hantavirus in northern short-tailed shrew, United States. Emerg Infect Dis 2007; 13: 1420-1423.
21. Arai S, Bennett SN, Sumibcay L et al. Phylogenetically distinct hantaviruses in the masked shrew (Sorex cinereus) and dusky shrew (Sorex monticolus) in the United States. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008; 78: 348-351.
22. Song J-W, Kang HJ, Song KJ et al. Newfound hantavirus in Chinese mole shrew, Vietnam. Emerg Infect Dis 2007; 13: 1784-1787.
23. Song JW, Gu SH, Bennett SN et al. Seewis virus, a genetically distinct hantavirus in the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus). Virol J 2007; 4: 114.
24. Arai S, Ohdachi SD, Asakawa M et al. Molecular phylogeny of a newfound hantavirus in the Japanese shrew mole (Urotrichus talpoides). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2008; 105: 16296-16301.
25. Chu YK, Jennings G, Schmaljohn A et al. Cross-neutralization of hantaviruses with immune sera from experimentally infected animals and from hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome patients. J Infect Dis 1995; 172: 1581-1584.
26. Engelthaler DM, Mosley DG, Cheek JE et al. Climatic and environmental patterns associated with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, Four Corners region, United States. Emerg Infect Dis 1999; 5: 87-94.
27. Gubler DJ, Reiter P, Ebi KL, Yap W, Nasci R, Patz JA. Climate variability and change in the United States: Potential impacts on vector- and rodent-borne diseases. Environ Health Perspect 2001; 109 (suppl 2): 223-233.
28. Heyman P, Cochez C, Ducoffre G et al. Haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome: An analysis of the outbreaks in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 2005. Euro Surveill 2007; 12: E15-E16.
29. Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany. Epidemiologisches Bulletin. 2008; [cited 2008 dec 10]. Available from http://www.rki.de
30. Hofmann J, Meisel H, Klempa B et al. Hantavirus outbreak, Germany, 2007. Emerg Infect Dis 2008; 14: 850-852.
31. Overgaard R, Gemmel P, Karlsson M. Effects of weather conditions on mast year frequency in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in Sweden. Forestry 2007; 80: 555-565.
32. Tersago K, Verhagen R, Servais A, Heyman P, Ducoffre G, Leirs H. Hantavirus disease (nephropathia epidemica) in Belgium: Effects of tree seed production and climate. Epidemiol Infect 2008; 7: 1-7.
33. Clement J, Vercauteren J, Verstraeten WW et al. Relating increasing hantavirus incidences to the changing climate: The mast connection. Int J Health Geogr 2009; 8: 1 [Epub ahead of print].
34. Vapalahti O, Mustonen J, Lundkvist A, Henttonen H, Plyusnin A, Vaheri A. Hantavirus infections in Europe. Lancet Infect Dis 2003; 3: 653-661.
35. Hörnfeldt B, Hipkiss T, Eklund U. Fading out of vole and predator cycles? Proc Biol Sci 2005; 272: 2045-2049.
36. Kausrud KL, Mysterud A, Steen H et al. Linking climate change to lemming cycles. Nature 2008; 456: 93-97.
37. Hurrell JW, Kushnir Y, Visbeck M. The North Atlantic Oscillation. Science 2001; 291: 603-605.
38. Pettersson L, Boman J, Juto P, Evander M, Ahlm C. Outbreak of Puumala virus infection, Sweden. Emerg Infect Dis 2008; 14: 808-810.
39. Bryja J, Řehák Z. Další Doklad Současné Expanse Myšice Temnopásé (Apodemus agrarius) na Moravě. Praha: Lynx, 2002.
40. Dudich A. Dynamika areálu ryšavky tmavopásej (Apodemus agrarius Pall.)-expanzia či invázia. In: Eliáš P, ed., Invázie a invázne organizmy. Nitra: SEKOS, 1997; 53-62.
41. Spitzenberger F. Die Säugetierefauna Österreichs, 13th edn. Gratz: Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft, 2001.
42. Gliwicz J, Kryštufek B. Apodemus agrarius (Pallas, 1771). In: Mitchell-Jones A, Amori G, Bogdanowicz W, Kryštufek B, Reinders PJH, Spitzenberger F, Stubbe M, Thissen JBM, Vohralík V, Zima J eds, The Atlas of European Mammals. London: Academic Press, 1999: 266-267.
43. Thibault KM, Brown JH. Impact of an extreme climatic event on community assembly. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2008; 105: 3410-3415.
44. Galeno H, Mora J, Villagra E et al. First human isolate of Hantavirus (Andes virus) in the Americas. Emerg Infect Dis 2002; 8: 657-661.