Publications
| serological study of hantavirus in man in the autonomous community of madrid, spain. | data relating to hantavirus infection in spain are scarce and limited to rural areas. the aim of this work was to study the seroprevalence of hantavirus infection in the autonomous community of madrid (acm), a region containing both rural and urban populations in different ecological settings. sera from 3852 individuals (1849 male, 2003 female) were screened by indirect inmunofluorescence, with vero e6 cells infected with puumala, hantaan and seoul viruses as antigens. screen-positive results we ... | 2002 | 12435066 |
| prevalence of anti-hantavirus antibodies in patients with hypertransaminemia in madrid (spain). | the hantaviruses are involved in a number of clinical syndromes of different severity and prognosis. hantaviruses are widely distributed around the world, but the spectrum of illnesses they cause outside recognized endemic areas is unclear. a retrospective analysis was performed to detect anti-hantavirus antibodies in the serum of patients with hypertransaminemia of unknown etiology and in that of healthy members of the general population of madrid (spain). antibodies were detected by indirect i ... | 2007 | 17690415 |