Atypical severe puumala hantavirus infection and virus sequence analysis of the patient and regional reservoir host

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 59, Issue SUPPL.2, 2012, Pages 110-115

  Eckerle, I ^a,c   Jakob, E ^a   Hofmann, J ^b   Schmidt Bacher, A ^a   Ettinger, J ^b   Schnitzler, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glaucoma; Hantavirus; Hepatitis; Puumala S segment; Reservoir host

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BRIMONIDINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTISONE; DORZOLAMIDE PLUS TIMOLOL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LATANOPROST; PILOCARPINE; VIRUS RNA;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FLUID BALANCE; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PUUMALA VIRUS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; URINALYSIS; VIRUS DETECTION;

AGED; CORTISONE; GERMANY; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; MALE; NEPHRITIS, INTERSTITIAL; PHYLOGENY; PUUMALA VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL;

HANTAVIRUS; PUUMALA; PUUMALA VIRUS;

EID: 84866026819     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2011.01452.x     Document Type: Article

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