Life-Threatening Sochi Virus Infections, Russia

Sochi virus was recently identified as a new hantavirus genotype carried by the Black Sea field mouse, Apodemus ponticus. We evaluated 62 patients in Russia with Sochi virus infection. Most clinical cases were severe, and the case-fatality rate was as high as 14.5%.

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Veröffentlicht in:	Emerging infectious diseases 2015-12, Vol.21 (12), p.2204-2208
Hauptverfasser:	Kruger, Detlev H, Tkachenko, Evgeniy A, Morozov, Vyacheslav G, Yunicheva, Yulia V, Pilikova, Olga M, Malkin, Gennadiy, Ishmukhametov, Aydar A, Heinemann, Patrick, Witkowski, Peter T, Klempa, Boris, Dzagurova, Tamara K
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Animals Antibodies, Viral Apodemus ponticus Care and treatment Communicable diseases Continuing medical education Dispatch Education, Medical, Continuing Hantavirus Hantavirus - genetics Hantavirus - pathogenicity Hantavirus Infections - epidemiology Health aspects hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome Humans Life-Threatening Sochi Virus Infections, Russia Mice Middle Aged Murinae Patient outcomes Phylogeny Russia Russia - epidemiology Sochi virus viruses Zoonoses - epidemiology Zoonoses - transmission
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Zusammenfassung:	Sochi virus was recently identified as a new hantavirus genotype carried by the Black Sea field mouse, Apodemus ponticus. We evaluated 62 patients in Russia with Sochi virus infection. Most clinical cases were severe, and the case-fatality rate was as high as 14.5%.
ISSN:	1080-6040 1080-6059
DOI:	10.3201/eid2112.150891