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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
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.
Eurosurveillance
Rapid communications
THE CONTINUED EMERGENCE OF HANTAVIRUSES: ISOLATION OF A SEOUL VIRUS IMPLICATED IN HUMAN DISEASE, UNITED KINGDOM, OCTOBER 2012
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.
Eurosurveillance