| a new puumala hantavirus subtype in rodents associated with an outbreak of nephropathia epidemica in south-east germany in 2004. | a micro-epidemic of hantavirus infections occurred in lower bavaria, south-east germany, starting in april 2004. while only three cases were registered from 2001 to 2003, a dramatically increased number of clinically apparent human hantavirus infections (n=38) was observed in 2004, plus seven additional cases by june 2005. to determine the reservoir responsible for the infections, a total of 43 rodents were trapped in lower bavaria. serological and genetic investigations revealed that puumala vi ... | 2006 | 16650330 |
| hantavirus disease outbreak in germany: limitations of routine serological diagnostics and clustering of virus sequences of human and rodent origin. | in europe, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome results mainly from infection with puumala virus (puuv) or dobrava virus. for 31 patients from a hantavirus disease outbreak in lower bavaria, a district in southeast germany, serodiagnosis was undertaken by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, immunofluorescence assay, and immunoblot analysis. in a few of these cases, however, puuv-specific typing of antibodies by these standard assays failed and a virus neutralization assay under biosafety level 3 ... | 2007 | 17626170 |
| network "rodent-borne pathogens" in germany: longitudinal studies on the geographical distribution and prevalence of hantavirus infections. | hantavirus infections are known in germany since the 1980s. while the overall antibody prevalence against hantaviruses in the general human population was estimated to be about 1-2%, an average of 100-200 clinical cases are recorded annually. in the years 2005 and 2007 in particular, a large increase of the number of human hantavirus infections in germany was observed. the most affected regions were located in the federal states of baden-wuerttemberg, bavaria, north rhine westphalia, and lower s ... | 2008 | 19030894 |
| patterns of orthopox virus wild rodent hosts in south germany. | although cowpox virus (cpxv) infections in a variety of dead-end hosts have been investigated in germany for more than 50 years, data on species and geographical distribution of cpxv in reservoir hosts are sparse. here we present the first comprehensive study of 825 rodents that have been collected in bavaria, southern germany. in summary, six different rodent species (apodemus flavicollis, myodes glareolus, microtus arvalis, apodemus sylvaticus, microtus agrestis, and arvicola amphibius) were t ... | 2009 | 19492947 |
| the prevalence of small terrestrial mammals infected with tick-borne encephalitis virus and leptospirae in the foothills of the southern bavarian forest, germany. | in the district of grafenau/freyung (bavaria, germany), 266 specimens of small terrestrial mammals of 8 species were captured using live traps. from these mammals, apodemus flavicollis (42.1%) and clethrionomys glareolus (39.5%) were prevalent. all animals were tested for neutralizing antibodies to tick-borne encephalitis (tbe) virus and agglutinating antibodies to leptospirae. seropositivity against tbe virus was 14.0% and against leptospirae 7.9%, respectively. seropositivity to leptospirae ap ... | 1993 | 8298661 |