Seroprevalence of hantavirus infections in Switzerland in 2009: Difficulties in determining prevalence in a country with low endemicity

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 50, 2013, Pages

  Engler, O ^a   Klingstrom J ^b,c   Aliyev, E ^d   Niederhauser, C ^e   Fontana, S ^e   Strasser, M ^a   Portmann, J ^a   Signer, J ^a   Bankoul, S ^f   Frey, F ^g   Hatz, C ^d   Stutz, A ^d   Tschaggelar, A ^e   Mutsch M ^d  

^a SPIEZ LABORATORY   (Switzerland)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Swiss Red Cross   (Switzerland)

^f CBRN Defence of the Swiss Armed Forces   (Switzerland)

^g Military Medical Service Swiss Armed Forces   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; BLOOD DONOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HANTAVIRUS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SOLDIER; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWITZERLAND; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD DONORS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HANTAVIRUS; HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SWITZERLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890420748     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.50.20660     Document Type: Article

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