Hantaviruses and their hosts in Europe: Reservoirs here and there, but not everywhere?

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 549-561

  Olsson, Gert E ^a,b   Leirs, Herwig ^c,d   Henttonen, Heikki ^e  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d Danish Pest Infestation Laboratory   (Denmark)

^e FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

ecology; Europe; hantavirus; hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome; nephropathia epidemica; predictive models; Puumala virus; reservoir; rodents

Indexed keywords

BELGIUM; DOBRAVA VIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTONIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HABITAT; HANTAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENETICS; LATVIA; LIFE HISTORY; LITHUANIA; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUUMALA VIRUS; REVIEW; RODENT; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAAREMAA VIRUS; SCANDINAVIA; SEOUL VIRUS; SWEDEN; VIRAL GENETICS; VOLE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EUROPE; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; RODENTIA; ZOONOSES;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; HANTAVIRUS; MAMMALIA; PUUMALA; PUUMALA VIRUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 77957374903     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0138     Document Type: Review

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