Epidemiology and laboratory diagnosis of Hantavirus (HTV) infections.
Hantavirus (HTV) is recently discovered "hemorrhagic fever virus" belonging to the Bunyaviridae family, which is spread throughout the world by wild rodents and/or laboratory rats. During an epidemic in the Belgian-French Ardennes in 1993, more than 200 acute cases were recorded of the milder European form of HTV-illness, otherwise known as Nephropathia epidemica (NE). This variant may be recognized by the sudden onset of fever, acute renal failure, thrombocytopenia and sometimes by ophthalmologic complications. The symptomatology is rather aspecific and diagnosis can only be confirmed by sero... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1995 |
Schlagwörter: | 0 (Immunoglobulin G) / 0 (Immunoglobulin M) / 0 (RNA / Viral) / Belgium/epidemiology / Hantavirus Infections/*diagnosis/*epidemiology / Hantavirus/*immunology / Human / Immunoenzyme Techniques / Immunoglobulin G/isolation & purification / Immunoglobulin M/isolation & purification / Immunohistochemistry/methods / Polymerase Chain Reaction / RNA / Viral/isolation & purification / Support / Non-U.S. Gov't / U.S. Gov't / Non-P.H.S |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28523294 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://repub.eur.nl/pub/3528 |