Hantavirus in Bat, Sierra Leone

Weiss, Sabrina; Witkowski, Peter T.; Auste, Brita; Nowak, Kathrin; Weber, Natalie; Fahr, Jakob; Mombouli, Jean-Vivien; Wolfe, Nathan D.; Drexler, Jan Felix; Drosten, Christian; Klempa, Boris; Leendertz, Fabian H.; Kruger, Detlev H.

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Hantavirus in Bat, Sierra Leone

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2012/01/01
By Weiss, Sabrina ; Witkowski, Peter T. ; Auste, Brita
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1801.111026
Series: Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Weiss, Sabrina ; Witkowski, Peter T. ; Auste, Brita ; Nowak, Kathrin ; Weber, Natalie ; Fahr, Jakob ; Mombouli, Jean-Vivien ; Wolfe, Nathan D. ; Drexler, Jan Felix ; Drosten, Christian ; Klempa, Boris ; Leendertz, Fabian H. ; Kruger, Detlev H.
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Hantaviruses (family Bunyaviridae) are transmitted from rodent reservoirs to humans. These viruses cause life-threatening human diseases: hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome in the Americas and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Asia and Europe (1). Since 2006, indigenous hantaviruses were reported also from Africa. Sangassou virus was found in an African wood mouse (Hylomyscus simus) in Guinea (2). Discovery of newer African hantaviruses, Tanganya virus and recently Azagny virus, was even more surprising because they were found in shrews (3,4).
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1801.111026
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1080-6059 (digital) ; 1080-6040 (print)
Pubmed ID:

22261176
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PMC3310113
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Text ; Journal Article
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Sierra Leone
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Diseases & Conditions
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Africa
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18
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1
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Emerg Infect Dis. 18(1):159-161.
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