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Nephrol Dial Transplant (1999) 14: 1843-1844
© 1999 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

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Hantavirus infection—haemorrhagic fever in the Balkans—potential nephrological hazards in the Kosovo war

Joachim J. Bugert, Tania Mara Welzel, Martin Zeier and Gholamreza Darai

Institut für Medizinische Virologie der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld, Heidelberg, Germany

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Prof. G. Darai, Hygiene Institut, Abt. Virologie, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 324, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

Background

Hantaviruses belong to the family Bunyaviridae and have a tri-segmented negative-sense single-stranded RNA genome. The virus reservoir was found to be rodents and transmission occurs by aerosol of rodent droppings. The different types of hantavirus have co-evolved with their specific rodent host through evolutionary time spans.

Korean haemorragic fever, that later was found to be caused by a hantavirus infection, attracted attention during, and after, the Korean war (1951–1953), when more than 3000 American and Korean soldiers fell severely ill with an infectious disease characterized by renal failure, generalized haemorrhage and shock with a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Hantavirus strains and hantavirus infections in the Balkan countries

The current epidemical situation

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