Hantavirus RNA in saliva from patients with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.(RESEARCH)(Disease/Disorder overview)

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Hantaviruses cause 2 zoonotic diseases, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. Infection is usually initiated after inhalation of virus-contaminated rodent excreta. In addition to the zoonotic infection route, growing evidence suggests person-to-person transmission of Andes virus. For this reason, we studied whether saliva from HFRS patients contained hantavirus. During an outbreak in northern Sweden of nephropathia epidemica (NE), a milder form of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, we collected saliva and plasma from 14 ...

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