Disease burden of Puumala virus infections, 1995-2008

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 138, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1484-1492

  Makary, P ^a   Kanerva, M ^a,b   Ollgren, J ^a   Virtanen, M J ^a   Vapalahti, O ^c   Lyytikainen O ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Emerging infections; epidemiology; hantavirus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; FINLAND; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; POPULATION DENSITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUUMALA VIRUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY; ZOONOSIS; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; CHILD; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SEASON; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PUUMALA VIRUS; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956403771     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810000087     Document Type: Article

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