Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Yugoslavia, 1986

Overview

Journal Am J Trop Med Hyg

Specialty Tropical Medicine

Date 1989 Jul 1

PMID 2569845

Citations 9

Authors

A Gligic

M Obradovic

R Stojanovic

N Vujosevic

A Ovcaric

M Frusic

C J Gibbs Jr

C H Calisher

D C Gajdusek

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Abstract

An epidemic of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) occurred in Yugoslavia May-November 1986; all Republics and Provinces were involved. Serum samples were received from 260 of 276 persons with symptoms clinically compatible with a diagnosis of HFRS. Presumptive infection with a hantavirus was determined serologically for 161 of these. Many patients with serious clinical pictures, including severe renal insufficiency and shock, were hospitalized; 11 died. Indirect fluorescent antibody tests with antigens of 4 hantaviruses (Hantaan, Fojnica, Puumala, and the Vranica strain of Puumala virus) showed that greater than 1 serotype was circulating during this epidemic. Hantavirus antigens were detected in the lungs of 86 of 302 (28.5%) wild-caught small mammals.

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