Hantaviruses: etiologic agents of rare, but potentially life-threatening zoonotic diseases
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Hantaviruses: etiologic agents of rare, but potentially life-threatening zoonotic diseases.
I n the spring of 1993, an outbreak of adult human respiratory distress syndrome was recognized among Native Americans in the Four Corners area of the southwestern United States. 1 Soon thereafter, a han-tavirus was confirmed as the etiologic agent of this disease , termed hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). 2 The virus, a member of the family Bunyaviridae and named Sin Nombre virus (SNV), was...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0003-1488
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2003.222.163