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Euro Surveill. The continued emergence of hantaviruses: isolation of a Seoul virus implicated in human disease, United Kingdom, October 2012
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L J Jameson (
)<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, C H Logue<SUP>1</SUP>, B Atkinson<SUP>1</SUP>, N Baker<SUP>3</SUP>, S E Galbraith<SUP>2</SUP>, M W Carroll<SUP>1</SUP>, T Brooks<SUP>4</SUP>, R Hewson<SUP>1</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Jameson LJ, Logue CH, Atkinson B, Baker N, Galbraith SE, Carroll MW, Brooks T, Hewson R. The continued emergence of hantaviruses: isolation of a Seoul virus implicated in human disease, United Kingdom, October 2012. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(1):pii=20344. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20344
Date of submission: 04 December 2012 <HR>Following a suspected case of hantavirus in a patient suffering from acute kidney injury, rodents from the patient?s property in Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom (UK) were screened for hantaviruses. Hantavirus RNA was detected via RT-PCR in two Rattus norvegicus. Complete sequencing and phylogenetic analysis established the virus as a Seoul hantavirus, which we have provisionally designated as strain Humber. This is the first hantavirus isolated from wild rodents in the UK and confirms the presence of a pathogenic Seoul virus in Europe.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 18, Issue 1, 03 January 2013
Rapid communications
The continued emergence of hantaviruses: isolation of a Seoul virus implicated in human disease, United Kingdom, October 2012
Rapid communications
The continued emergence of hantaviruses: isolation of a Seoul virus implicated in human disease, United Kingdom, October 2012
L J Jameson (
- Virology and Pathogenesis, Microbiology Services, Health Protection Agency, Porton Down, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- National Collection of Pathogenic Viruses, Microbiology Services, Health Protection Agency, Porton Down, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory, Microbiology Services, Health Protection Agency, Porton Down, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Citation style for this article: Jameson LJ, Logue CH, Atkinson B, Baker N, Galbraith SE, Carroll MW, Brooks T, Hewson R. The continued emergence of hantaviruses: isolation of a Seoul virus implicated in human disease, United Kingdom, October 2012. Euro Surveill. 2013;18(1):pii=20344. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20344
Date of submission: 04 December 2012 <HR>Following a suspected case of hantavirus in a patient suffering from acute kidney injury, rodents from the patient?s property in Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom (UK) were screened for hantaviruses. Hantavirus RNA was detected via RT-PCR in two Rattus norvegicus. Complete sequencing and phylogenetic analysis established the virus as a Seoul hantavirus, which we have provisionally designated as strain Humber. This is the first hantavirus isolated from wild rodents in the UK and confirms the presence of a pathogenic Seoul virus in Europe.