Human Hantavirus Infections in the Netherlands

Hantavirus infections in The Netherlands

The hanta hunting study: underdiagnosis of Puumala hantavirus infections in symptomatic non-travelling leptospirosis-suspected patients in the Netherlands, in 2010 and April to November 2011.

Leptospirosis and haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) are hard to distinguish clinically since these two important rodent-borne zoonoses share hallmark symptoms such as renal failure and haemorrhage. Leptospirosis is caused by infection with a spirochete while HFRS is the result of an infection with certain hantaviruses. Both diseases are relatively rare in the Netherlands. Increased ...

Leptospirosis versus hantavirus infections in the Netherlands and in Belgium, 2000 to 2014.

J Clement ([email protected])1, M Van Esbroeck2, K Lagrou3, J Verschueren2, N P Sunil-Chandra4, M Van Ranst1 1. National Reference Centre for Hantaviruses, Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, University Hospitals of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2. National Reference Laboratory for Leptospirosis, Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium 3. Department ...

Epidemiology and epizootiology of hantavirus infection in Japan.

Hantaviruses cause two severe human diseases: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Various rodent species act as animal reservoirs for hantavirus. In Japan, urban rat- (Rattus norvegicus) and laboratory rat-derived human infections were reported during the 1960s and 1970s-1984, respectively. Although no human cases of infection have been reported...

First evidence of Seoul hantavirus in the wild rat population in the Netherlands

We report the first detection of Seoul hantavirus (SEOV)-specific antibodies in the wild brown rat population in the Netherlands. SEOV-reactive antibodies were found in three rats out of 16 in a repeated series of tests including immunofluorescence assay, immunoblot, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Focus reduction neutralization test confirmed the presence of SEOV-specific antibodies, an...