Hantavirus outbreak in Western Europe: Reservoir host infection dynamics related to human disease patterns

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 381-390

  Tersago, K ^a   Verhagen, R ^a   Vapalahti, O ^b   Heyman, P ^c   Ducoffre, G ^d   Leirs, H ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c QUEEN ASTRID MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Myodes glareolus; nephropathia epidemica; population ecology; Puumala hantavirus; serology

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; POPULATION RISK; SEROCONVERSION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WESTERN EUROPE; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARVICOLINAE; BLOOD; DISEASE CARRIER; EUROPE; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PUUMALA VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARVICOLINAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INCIDENCE; MALE; PUUMALA VIRUS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 79952472108     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810000956     Document Type: Article

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