| fatal illness associated with a new hantavirus in louisiana. | a fatal case of hantaviral illness occurred in louisiana, outside of the range of p. maniculatus, the rodent reservoir for sin nombre virus. hantavirus rna and antigens were detected in patient autopsy tissues, and nucleotide sequence analysis of amplified polymerase chain reaction (pcr) products identified a newly recognized unique hantavirus, provisionally named bayou virus. prominent features of the clinical illness are compatible with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps), but several features ... | 1995 | 7561804 |
| a newly recognized virus associated with a fatal case of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in louisiana. | genetic analysis of virus detected in autopsy tissues of a fatal hantavirus pulmonary syndrome-like case in louisiana revealed the presence of a previously unrecognized hantavirus. nucleotide sequence analysis of pcr fragments of the complete s and m segments of the virus amplified from rna extracted from the tissues showed the virus to be novel, differing from the closest related hantavirus, sin nombre virus, by approximately 30%. both genome segments were unique, and there was no evidence of g ... | 1995 | 7853545 |
| update: hantavirus disease--united states, 1993. | | 1993 | 7902158 |
| hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps): report of first case in louisiana. | since may 1993, 26 people have died of a "unique, previously unknown" viral illness that presents with flu-like symptoms and progresses rapidly to respiratory failure and death. originally isolated in the four-corners region of the southwest, the hantavirus responsible has now been isolated from patients in several other areas. in this article, we describe our experience with "the most puzzling case so far," an infection by a "cousin" of the southwest hantaviral strain in a louisiana bridgeworke ... | 1993 | 8307809 |
| update: hantavirus disease--united states, 1993. | since the recognition of acute hantavirus-associated respiratory disease in the united states in may 1993, laboratory evidence of acute hantavirus infection has been confirmed in 30 persons in the southwestern united states; 20 (67%) of these persons have died. of those 30 persons, 23 resided in the four-corners region (14 in new mexico, six in arizona, and three in colorado). previously reported cases outside the four-corners states occurred in a nevada resident and a texas resident, neither of ... | 1993 | 8336693 |
| from the centers for disease control and prevention. update: hantavirus disease--united states, 1993. | | 1993 | 8355371 |
| hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, renal insufficiency, and myositis associated with infection by bayou hantavirus. | hantaviruses are etiologic agents of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, an acute illness characterized by acute renal insufficiency, proteinuria, and hemodynamic instability. recently, a new world form of hantavirus disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps), was recognized; in this form, pulmonary edema is prominent, but renal insufficiency is generally lacking. hps cases from the southeastern united states may be exceptional in that they have exhibited both pulmonary and renal manifestat ... | 1996 | 8879771 |
| isolation, genetic diversity, and geographic distribution of bayou virus (bunyaviridae: hantavirus). | bayou hantavirus, previously implicated in human hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in louisiana, was isolated from a rice rat (oryzomys palustris) captured in georgia. the presence of antibody among rice rats captured throughout the southeastern united states and the extent of diversity among the genetic variants of bayou viruses suggest that the rice rat is the most likely natural reservoir of the virus and that both virus and host have probably co-evolved for some years. | 1997 | 9347961 |