Serological and genetic evidence for the presence of Seoul hantavirus in Rattus norvegicus in Flanders, Belgium
| Autor: | Paul Heyman, C. Vandenvelde, C Cochez, Jan Stuyck, M Van Esbroeck, Evi Goossens, Kristof Baert, Angelina Plyusnina, Alexander Plyusnin, Åke Lundkvist |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Male Brown rat Seoul hantavirus 030231 tropical medicine Seroprevalence Viral diseases Biology Antibodies Viral Rodents Serology Rodent Diseases 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Belgium Occupational Exposure Animals Humans Mass Screening Mass screening Hantavirus Seoul virus 0303 health sciences General Immunology and Microbiology 030306 microbiology Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction General Medicine Sequence Analysis DNA biology.organism_classification Virology 3. Good health Hantavirus disease Rats stomatognathic diseases Infectious Diseases Black rat Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome DNA Viral Female SEOV Europe West Bunyaviridae |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases. 41(1) |
| ISSN: | 0036-5548 |
| Popis: | This is an electronic version of an article published in Scand J Infect Dis. 2009;41(1):51-6. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases is available online at informaworldTM Seoul hantavirus (SEOV), carried by Rattus rattus (black rat) and R. norvegicus (Norway, brown rat), was reported to circulate as well as cause HFRS cases in Asia. As Rattus sp. are present worldwide, SEOV has the potential to cause human disease worldwide. In Europe however, only SEOV prevalence in rats from France was reported and no confirmed cases of SEOV infection were published. We here report genetic and serological evidence for the presence of SEOV virus in brown rat populations in Belgium. We also serologically screened an at-risk group that was in contact with R. norvegicus on a daily basis and found no evidence for SEOV infection. |
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