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From:The Western Journal of Medicine (Vol. 164, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE PATIENT, a 19-year-old male smoker, was admitted to a rural Utah hospital in August 1994 with a dry cough, body aches, and fever to 39.4[degrees]C (103[degrees]F). He had been given amoxicillin for pharyngitis by...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 9, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedWe initiated a study to elucidate the ecology and epidemiology of hantavirus infections in northern Argentina. The northwestern hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS)-endemic area of Argentina comprises Salta and Jujuy...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 8, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedWe isolated Andes virus (formal name: Andes virus [ANDV], a species in the genus Hantavirus), from serum of an asymptomatic 10-year-old Chilean boy who died 6 days later of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). The serum...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 13, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is characterized by fever, gastrointestinal symptoms, respiratory distress, elevated hematocrit, hypoalbuminemia, and thrombocytopenia. Most cases in North America are...
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From:Journal of Postgraduate Medicine (Vol. 64, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: H. Gozdas, D. Menemenlio?lu, Y. Co?gun, G. Celebi Renal involvement due to European Puumala virus (PUUV) is frequent but pulmonary involvement is quite rare. We present here, a 24-year-old male with atypical...
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From:Western North American Naturalist (Vol. 72, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a rare disease with a high mortality rate, caused by New World viral species of the genus Hantavirus. The presence of hantaviruses both north and south of Mexico suggests an...
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From:Nature (Vol. 563, Issue 7732) Peer-ReviewedThe zoonotic transmission of hantaviruses from their rodent hosts to humans in North and South America is associated with a severe and frequently fatal respiratory disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS).sup.1,2....
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From:Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases (Vol. 11, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAn ecological assessment of reservoir species was conducted in a rural area (Jabora) in the mid-west of the state of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil, where hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is endemic, to evaluate the...
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From:Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases (Vol. 11, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedSin Nombre virus (SNV) is the principal cause of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in the United States and deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) are its principal rodent host, and thus the natural cycle of the virus is...
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From:Future Virology (Vol. 7, Issue 1)Author(s): Frederick Koster [**] 2 , Erich Mackow 1 Keywords * Andes virus; hamster; hantavirus; hantavirus pulmonary syndrome; integrins; pathogenesis; pulmonary edema; Sin Nombre virus; vascular leak...
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From:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (Vol. 15, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Infections with the Puumala orthohantavirus (PUUV) in humans may cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), known as nephropathia epidemica (NE), which is associated with acute renal failure in...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 188, Issue 17-18) Peer-ReviewedA previously healthy 22-year-old man presented to a community hospital with diarrhea, vomiting, and a fever of 40[degrees]C that had lasted for two days. He was admitted to the intensive care unit. Initially, the...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 27, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWe report molecular evidence of Tula virus infection in an immunocompetent patient from Germany who had typical signs of hantavirus disease. Accumulating evidence indicates that Tula virus infection, although often...
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From:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHantaviruses can cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in the Americas and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in Eurasia. In recent decades, repeated outbreaks of hantavirus disease have led to public...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe determined the prevalence of Sin Nombre virus antibodies in small mammals in southeastern Arizona. Of 1,234 rodents (from 13 species) captured each month from May through December 1995, only mice in the genus...
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From:The Western Journal of Medicine (Vol. 164, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIN MAY 1993, an outbreak of an acute illness characterized by a prodrome of fever and variable respiratory symptoms, followed by a rapid progression to respiratory failure, was identified in young adults of the...
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From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week2017 MAR 25 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Data detailed on Respiratory Tract Diseases and Conditions - Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome have been presented....
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From:Nature Reviews Microbiology (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedHantaviruses are negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses that infect many species of rodents, shrews, moles and bats. Infection in these reservoir hosts is almost asymptomatic, but some rodent-borne hantaviruses also...
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From:Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases (Vol. 11, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedChoclo virus (CHOV) and Maporal virus (MAPV) are enzootic in Panama and western Venezuela, respectively. The results of previous studies suggested that the fulvous pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys fulvescens) is the...
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From:BMC Infectious Diseases (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground We report hereby a severe case of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome" (HPS) induced by Maripa virus in French Guiana and describe the mechanism of severity of the human disease. Case presentation A 47-year-...