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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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[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]

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


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>
  1. Virology and Pathogenesis, Microbiology Services, Health Protection Agency, Porton Down, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
  2. Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  3. National Collection of Pathogenic Viruses, Microbiology Services, Health Protection Agency, Porton Down, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
  4. Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory, Microbiology Services, Health Protection Agency, Porton Down, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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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/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=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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