Sensitivity of Andes Hantavirus to Antiviral Effect of Human Saliva

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• Journal Article:
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Personal Author:
  Hardestam, Jonas ; Lundkvist, Åke ; Klingström, Jonas
• Description:
  Hantaviruses cause 2 severe and often fatal human diseases, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Eurasia and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) in the Americas. Rodents are the natural hosts for hantaviruses that cause HFRS and HCPS, and humans are usually infected by aerosolized virus-contaminated rodent excreta (1,2). Except for Andes virus (ANDV), human-to-human transmission of hantaviruses does not seem to occur. ANDV clearly is transmitted directly from human to human (3), but exactly how this occurs or why other pathogenic hantaviruses are not transmitted between humans is not known.
• Subjects:
  • Antibodies, Viral
  • Hantavirus Infections
  • Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
  • Hemorrhagic Fever With Renal Syndrome
  • Humans
  • RNA, Viral
  • Saliva
  • Orthohantavirus
  • Zoonoses
• Keywords:
  • Andes Virus
  • Hantavirus
  • HPS
• Series:
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1507.090097
• ISSN:
  1080-6059 (digital) ; 1080-6040 (print)
• Pubmed ID:
  19624946
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC2744264
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Letter
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Volume:
  15
• Issue:
  7
• Citation:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 15(7):1140-1142.
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/17519/cdc_17519_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 372.13 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
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