The Continued Emergence of Hantaviruses: Isolation of a Seoul Virus Implicated in Human Disease, United Kingdom, October 2012

Overview

Journal Euro Surveill

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2013 Jan 12

PMID 23305714

Citations 36

Authors

L J Jameson

C H Logue

B Atkinson

N Baker

S E Galbraith

M W Carroll

T Brooks

R Hewson

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Abstract

Following a suspected case of hantavirus in a patientsuffering from acute kidney injury, rodents fromthe patient’s property in Yorkshire and the Humber,United Kingdom (UK) were screened for hantaviruses.Hantavirus RNA was detected via RT-PCR in two Rattusnorvegicus. Complete sequencing and phylogeneticanalysis established the virus as a Seoul hantavirus,which we have provisionally designated as strainHumber. This is the first hantavirus isolated from wildrodents in the UK and confirms the presence of a pathogenicSeoul virus in Europe.

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