Hantavirus infections in Europe and their impact on public health

A Vaheri, H Henttonen, L Voutilainen… - Reviews in medical …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
SUMMARY Hantaviruses (genus Hantavirus, family Bunyaviridae) are enveloped tri‐
segmented negative‐stranded RNA viruses each carried by a specific rodent or insectivore …

Global diversity and distribution of hantaviruses and their hosts

MT Milholland, I Castro-Arellano, G Suzán… - EcoHealth, 2018‏ - Springer
Rodents represent 42% of the world's mammalian biodiversity encompassing 2,277 species
populating every continent (except Antarctica) and are reservoir hosts for a wide diversity of …

Complex evolution and epidemiology of Dobrava-Belgrade hantavirus: definition of genotypes and their characteristics

B Klempa, T Avsic-Zupanc, J Clement, TK Dzagurova… - Archives of …, 2013‏ - Springer
Dobrava-Belgrade virus (DOBV) is a human pathogen that has evolved in, and is hosted by,
mice of several species of the genus Apodemus. We propose a subdivision of the species …

[HTML][HTML] Hantavirus reservoirs: current status with an emphasis on data from Brazil

R Carvalho de Oliveira, A Guterres, J Fernandes… - Viruses, 2014‏ - mdpi.com
Since the recognition of hantavirus as the agent responsible for haemorrhagic fever in
Eurasia in the 1970s and, 20 years later, the descovery of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome …

Molecular Identification of Small Mammal Species Using Novel Cytochrome b Gene-Derived Degenerated Primers

M Schlegel, HS Ali, N Stieger, MH Groschup, R Wolf… - Biochemical …, 2012‏ - Springer
Materials and Methods Small mammal samples were taken from the tissue collection of the
network “Rodent-borne pathogens”(Ulrich et al. 2008) stored at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut …

Hantaviruses: rediscovery and new beginnings

R Yanagihara, SH Gu, S Arai, HJ Kang, JW Song - Virus research, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Virus and host gene phylogenies, indicating that antigenically distinct hantaviruses (family
Bunyaviridae, genus Hantavirus) segregate into clades, which parallel the molecular …

Hantaviruses in the Americas and their role as emerging pathogens

B Hjelle, F Torres-Pérez - Viruses, 2010‏ - mdpi.com
The continued emergence and re-emergence of pathogens represent an ongoing,
sometimes major, threat to populations. Hantaviruses (family Bunyaviridae) and their …

Hantaviruses and their hosts in Europe: reservoirs here and there, but not everywhere?

GE Olsson, H Leirs, H Henttonen - Vector-Borne and Zoonotic …, 2010‏ - liebertpub.com
Five hantaviruses are known to circulate among rodents in Europe, and at least two among
insectivores. Four (Dobrava, Saaremaa, Seoul, and Puumala [PUUV] viruses) are clearly …

[HTML][HTML] Leptospira spp. in Rodents and Shrews in Germany

A Mayer-Scholl, JA Hammerl, S Schmidt… - International journal of …, 2014‏ - mdpi.com
Leptospirosis is an acute, febrile disease occurring in humans and animals worldwide.
Leptospira spp. are usually transmitted through direct or indirect contact with the urine of …

Factors driving hantavirus emergence in Europe

C Reusken, P Heyman - Current opinion in virology, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Hantaviruses cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Eurasia. In Europe
both the amplitude and the magnitude of outbreaks of HFRS have increased. The …