First Molecular Evidence for Puumala Hantavirus in Slovakia

We report on the first Puumala hantavirus nucleotide sequence (strain Opina-916) amplified from a bank vole trapped in Slovakia, central Europe. Phylogenetic analysis of the S-segment sequence grouped the virus within the western/central European sublineage of Puumala virus. In the neighborhood of t...

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Published in:	Virus genes Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 165 - 169
Main Authors:	Leitmeyer, K, Sibold, C, Meisel, H, Ulrich, R, Labuda, M, Krüger, D H
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Kluwer Academic Publishers 01-01-2001 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Animals Arvicolinae - virology Hantavirus Infections - virology Humans Open Reading Frames Phylogeny Puumala virus Puumala virus - classification Puumala virus - genetics Puumala virus - isolation & purification Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Slovakia - epidemiology Central European region Slovakia
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Summary:	We report on the first Puumala hantavirus nucleotide sequence (strain Opina-916) amplified from a bank vole trapped in Slovakia, central Europe. Phylogenetic analysis of the S-segment sequence grouped the virus within the western/central European sublineage of Puumala virus. In the neighborhood of the rodent trapping site two cases of human infection by the Puumala virus were verified.
Bibliography:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1011840104037 ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2
ISSN:	0920-8569 1572-994X
DOI:	10.1023/A:1011840104037