Publications

nephropathia epidemica and puumala virus in austria.	to study the epidemiology of hantavirus infections in austria, 1215 humans and 596 rodents of different species were tested for the presence of antibodies against puumala and hantaan virus. direct virus identification by polymerase chain reaction in lung tissue of serologically positive rodents was performed to verify antibody results and to determine the genetic identity of viral rna by phylogenetic analysis of a part of the hantavirus m segment. for 32 of the 37 cases of nephropathia epidemica ...	1999	10482022
genetic analysis of puumala hantavirus strains from austria.	sequences of the small (s) and the medium (m) genome segments of puumala hantavirus (puuv) were recovered from bank voles clethrionomys glareolus trapped at 2 locations, klippitztörl (carinthia) and ernstbrunn (lower austria). lung tissue samples from 12 rodents earlier found hantavirus antibody-positive were further screened for the presence of hantaviral n-antigen using immunoblotting. rna purified from 7 n-ag-positive samples was subjected to the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reactio ...	2006	16798703
multiple infections of rodents with zoonotic pathogens in austria.	rodents are important reservoirs for a large number of zoonotic pathogens. we examined the occurrence of 11 viral, bacterial, and parasitic agents in rodent populations in austria, including three different hantaviruses, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, orthopox virus, leptospira spp., borrelia spp., rickettsia spp., bartonella spp., coxiella burnetii, and toxoplasma gondii. in 2008, 110 rodents of four species (40 clethrionomys glareolus, 29 apodemus flavicollis, 26 apodemus sylvaticus, and ...	2014	24915446