Geographical distribution of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantaviruses

Lee, H. W.; Lee, P. W.; Baek, Luck Ju; Chu, Y. K.

doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-9091-3_2

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“…Nephropathia epidemica (NE) is a viral zoonosis affecting humans in Scandinavia and several other countries in Europe [1][2][3]. NE and related diseases in Asia are designated as haemorrhagic fevers with renal syndrome (HFRS).…”

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Prevalence of serum IgG antibodies to Puumala virus (haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome) in Northern Sweden

et al. 1994

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SUMMARYA stratified and randomly-selected population sample was identified in 1990 in order to study the seroprevalence of nephropathia epidemica (haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome) in Northern Sweden. Sera from 1538 subjects (750 men, 788 women), 25-64 years of age, were analysed for the presence of Puumala virus (PUV) specific-IgG by the indirect immunofluorescence antibody test. Specific IgG was detected in sera from 83 subjects (54%). Men and women had similar seroprevalence rates. The highest seroprevalences were found in subjects 55 years or older (8-0 %) and among farmers and forestry workers (15-9 %). The geographic distribution of seropositive individuals was uneven and there were significantly more seropositive persons in rural than in urban areas (P < 0 05).

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Prevalence of serum IgG antibodies to Puumala virus (haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome) in Northern Sweden

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“…Hantaviruses are found throughout the world with varying geographical distribution and degree of pathogenicity for the different serotypes. The Hantaan, Seoul and Puumala serotype viruses derived from Apodemus agrarius, Rattus norvegicus and Clethrionomys glareolus, respectively, are associated with severe, moderate and mild type haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), respectively, but the Prospect Hill and Thottapalyam serotypes derived from Microtus pennsylvanicus in the U.S.A. and Suncus murinus in India, respectively, have not shown any association with human disease (Lee et al, 1990;Beaty & Calisher, 1991).…”

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Cloning and sequencing of Puumala virus Sotkamo strain S and M RNA segments: evidence for strain variation in hantaviruses and expression of the nucleocapsid protein

Vapalahti

Kallio‐Kokko

Salonen

et al. 1992

Journal of General Virology

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The prototype Puumala virus (PV) Sotkamo strain small (S) and medium (M) RNA genome segments were amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), cloned and sequenced. The S segment is 1830 nucleotides long with an open reading frame coding for 433 amino acids. The identity to the PV H~illn~is strain was 83% at the nucleotide and 96% at the amino acid level. The M segment in the Sotkamo strain is 3616 nucleotides long and contains one open reading frame of 1148 amino acids with 83% nucleotide and 94% amino acid identity to the H/illn~is strain. Most amino acid changes were conservative and the five predicted glycosylation sites are identical. The amino acid identity to the prototype hantavirus, Hantaan virus, was 62 and 54% for S and M segments, respectively. The coding region of the S segment was further amplified by PCR, ligated to pEX vectors and expressed in Escherichia coli as a fl-galactosidase fusion protein and was seen to be specifically detected by nephropathia epidemica sera in immunoblotting.

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“…Although HFRS cases have been reported throughout the Eurasia continent, more than 90% of the cases have been reported in Far Eastern countries including China, Russia and Korea [9]. In other East Asian countries, such as Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and India, prevalence of SEOV and THAIV infection has been shown among rodents and humans [2,3,6,13,14,16,17,22].…”

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Studies on Hantavirus Infection in Small Mammals Captured in Southern and Central Highland Area of Vietnam

Luan

Yoshimatsu

Endo

et al. 2012

The Journal of Veterinary Medical Science

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ABSTRACT. To investigate the distribution of hantaviruses among animals in Southern and Central Highland area of Vietnam, a total of 1311 serum samples were obtained from rats and Asian house shrews (Suncus murinus) captured at 11 locations between 2006 and 2009. A total of 1066 serum samples from rats were examined for IgG antibodies against Hantaan virus, and there were 30 antibody-positive serum samples from rats that had been captured mainly in a port area and urban area in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) (2.8%). All of the antibody-positive rats were Rattus norvegicus, and they had Seoul virus (SEOV) genome in their lungs. SEOV sequences detected from rats captured in Southern Vietnam belonged to the same lineage as those from rats captured at Haiphong Port and a market area in Hanoi City. SEOV strain CSG5 was isolated from a rat captured at Saigon Harbor. Strain CSG5 showed a cross-neutralization pattern almost the same as that of a representative strain of SEOV. A total of 245 Asian house shrews were captured in the Central Highland area and near HCMC. Sera were examined for IgG antibodies against Thottapalayam virus (TPMV), and 32 (13.1%) of the antibody-positive shrews were mainly from the Central Highland area and showed a neutralizing antibody against TPMV. These results indicated that SEOV is distributed among R. norvegicus inhabiting harbor and urban areas of Southern Vietnam and that TPMV or an antigenically related virus is distributed among Asian house shrews in Central Highland area.

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Geographical distribution of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantaviruses

Cited by 56 publications

References 7 publications

Prevalence of serum IgG antibodies to Puumala virus (haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome) in Northern Sweden

Prevalence of serum IgG antibodies to Puumala virus (haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome) in Northern Sweden

Cloning and sequencing of Puumala virus Sotkamo strain S and M RNA segments: evidence for strain variation in hantaviruses and expression of the nucleocapsid protein

Studies on Hantavirus Infection in Small Mammals Captured in Southern and Central Highland Area of Vietnam

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