| prevalence of antibodies against hantaviruses in serum and saliva of adults living or working on farms in yorkshire, united kingdom. | hantaviruses are an established cause of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (hfrs) in europe. following a confirmed case of hfrs in the uk, in an individual residing on a farm in north yorkshire and the humber, a tidal estuary on the east coast of northern england, and the subsequent isolation of a seoul hantavirus from rats trapped on the patient's farm, it was considered appropriate to further investigate the public health risk of this virus in the region. of a total 119 individuals tested ... | 2014 | 24504130 |
| the continued emergence of hantaviruses: isolation of a seoul virus implicated in human disease, united kingdom, october 2012. | following a suspected case of hantavirus in a patientsuffering from acute kidney injury, rodents fromthe patient’s property in yorkshire and the humber,united kingdom (uk) were screened for hantaviruses.hantavirus rna was detected via rt-pcr in two rattusnorvegicus. complete sequencing and phylogeneticanalysis established the virus as a seoul hantavirus,which we have provisionally designated as strainhumber. this is the first hantavirus isolated from wildrodents in the uk and confirms the presen ... | 2013 | 23305714 |
| a seroprevalence study to determine the frequency of hantavirus infection in people exposed to wild and pet fancy rats in england. | recent cases of acute kidney injury due to seoul hantavirus infection from exposure to wild or pet fancy rats suggest this infection is increasing in prevalence in the uk. we conducted a seroprevalence study in england to estimate cumulative exposure in at-risk groups with contact with domesticated and wild rats to assess risk and inform public health advice. from october 2013 to june 2014, 844 individual blood samples were collected. hantavirus seroprevalence amongst the pet fancy rat owner gro ... | 2017 | 28724455 |
| high prevalence of seoul hantavirus in a breeding colony of pet rats. | as part of further investigations into three linked haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (hfrs) cases in wales and england, 21 rats from a breeding colony in cherwell, and three rats from a household in cheltenham were screened for hantavirus. hantavirus rna was detected in either the lungs and/or kidney of 17/21 (81%) of the cherwell rats tested, higher than previously detected by blood testing alone (7/21, 33%), and in the kidneys of all three cheltenham rats. the partial l gene sequences ob ... | 2017 | 28965516 |