Serological survey in the Finnish human population implies human-to-human transmission of Ljungan virus or antigenically related viruses

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1278-1285

  Jaaskelainen A J ^a   Voutilainen, L ^a,b   Lehmusto, R ^a   Henttonen, H ^b   Lappalainen, M ^a   Kallio Kokko, H ^a   Vaheri, A ^a   Vapalahti, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Natural Resource Institute Finland (Luke)   (Finland)

Author keywords

Parechovirus B; picornaviruses; rodent borne viruses; virology; zoonoses

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINLAND; FINN (CITIZEN); GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LJUNGAN VIRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; PUUMALA VIRUS; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VERY ELDERLY; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; BLOOD; COINFECTION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEWBORN; PARECHOVIRUS; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASE; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARVICOLINAE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COINFECTION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARECHOVIRUS; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; PUUMALA VIRUS; RODENT DISEASES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945279663     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268815002551     Document Type: Article

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