Publications

serological and genetic evidence for the presence of seoul hantavirus in rattus norvegicus in flanders, belgium.	seoul hantavirus (seov), carried by rattus rattus (black rat) and r. norvegicus (norway, brown rat), was reported to circulate as well as cause hfrs cases in asia. as rattus sp. are present worldwide, seov has the potential to cause human disease worldwide. in europe however, only seov prevalence in rats from france was reported and no confirmed cases of seov infection were published. we here report genetic and serological evidence for the presence of seov virus in brown rat populations in belgi ...	2009	18821445
genetic characterization of seoul hantavirus originated from norway rats (rattus norvegicus) captured in belgium.	hantaviruses (genus hantavirus, family bunyaviridae) cause hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (hfrs) in eurasia and hantavirus (cardio)pulmonary syndrome (hcps) in the americas. so far, in europe, four pathogenic hantaviruses have been found, often in co-circulation: puumala virus (puuv), dobrava virus (dobv), saaremaa virus (saav), and seoul virus (seov). of those, only puuv was found in belgium. recently, in our search for hantaviruses in the flanders region of belgium we collected genetic ...	2012	22711359