Euro Surveill. A five-year perspective on the situation of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and status of the hantavirus reservoirs in Europe, 2

Giuseppe · Sep 8, 2011

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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 36, 08 September 2011

Surveillance and outbreak reports

A five-year perspective on the situation of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and status of the hantavirus reservoirs in Europe, 2005-2010

P Heyman (

)1, C S Ceianu2, I Christova3, N Tordo4, M Beersma5, M Jo?o Alves6, A Lundkvist7, M Hukic8, A Papa9, A Tenorio10, H Zelen?11, S E?bauer12, I Visontai13, I Golovljova14, J Connell15, L Nicoletti16, M Van Esbroeck17, S Gjeruldsen Dudman18, S W Aberle19, T Av?ić-?upanc20, G Korukluoglu21, A Nowakowska22, B Klempa23, R G Ulrich24, S Bino25, O Engler26, M Opp27, A Vaheri28

Research Laboratory for Vector-borne Diseases and National Reference Laboratory for Hantavirus Infections, Brussels, Belgium
Cantacuzino Institute, Vector-Borne Diseases Laboratory, Bucharest, Romania
National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria
Unit of the Biology of Emerging Viral Infections (UBIVE), Institut Pasteur, Lyon, France
Department of Virology, Erasmus University Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Centre for Vectors and Infectious Diseases Research (CEVDI), National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge, ?guas de Moura, Portugal
Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control (SMI), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Clinical Centre, University of Sarajevo, Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
Arbovirus and Imported Viral Disease Unit, National Centre for Microbiology, Institute for Health Carlos III, Majadahonda, Spain
Institute of Public Health, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Department of Virology and Rickettsiology, Bundeswehr Institute for Microbiology, Munich, Germany
National Centre for Epidemiology, Budapest, Hungary
Department of Virology, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia
Department of Medical Microbiology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediate Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanit?, Laboratory of Virology, Rome, Italy
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Infectious Disease Control, Oslo, Norway
Department of Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
University of Ljubljana, Medical Faculty, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Refik Saydam National Public Health Agency, Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey
Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, Voivodeship Sanitary-Epidemiological Station, Rzesz?w, Poland
Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Friedrich-Loeffler Institute, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, World Organisation for Animal Health Collaborating Centre for Zoonoses in Europe, Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Greifswald - Insel Riems, Germany
Institute of Public Health, Control of Infectious Diseases, Tirana, Albania
Spiez Laboratory, Biology - Virology Group, Spiez, Switzerland
Laboratoire National de Sant?, Virologie, Luxembourg
Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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Citation style for this article: Heyman P, Ceianu CS, Christova I, Tordo N, Beersma M, Jo?o Alves M, Lundkvist A, Hukic M, Papa A, Tenorio A, Zelen? H, E?bauer S, Visontai I, Golovljova I, Connell J, Nicoletti L, Van Esbroeck M, Gjeruldsen Dudman S, Aberle SW, Av?ić-?upanc T, Korukluoglu G, Nowakowska A, Klempa B, Ulrich RG, Bino S, Engler O, Opp M, Vaheri A. A five-year perspective on the situation of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and status of the hantavirus reservoirs in Europe, 2005-2010. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(36)ii=19961. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19961
Date of submission: 10 December 2010 <HR>Hantavirus infections are reported from many countries in Europe and with highly variable annual case numbers. In 2010, more than 2,000 human cases were reported in Germany, and numbers above the baseline have also been registered in other European countries. Depending on the virus type human infections are characterised by mild to severe forms of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. The member laboratories of the European Network for diagnostics of Imported Viral Diseases present here an overview of the progression of human cases in the period from 2005 to 2010. Further we provide an update on the available diagnostic methods and endemic regions in their countries, with an emphasis on occurring virus types and reservoirs.

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Euro Surveill. A five-year perspective on the situation of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and status of the hantavirus reservoirs in Europe, 2

Giuseppe

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