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First molecular evidence for Puumala hantavirus in Slovakia
K Leitmeyer1, C Sibold, H Meisel
1Institute of Virology, Charité School of Medicine, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
Virus Genes
|November 29, 2001
Abstract:
We report on the first Puumala hantavirus nucleotide sequence (strain Opina-916) amplified from a bank vole trapped in Slovakia, central Europe. Phylogenetic analysis of the S-segment sequence grouped the virus within the western/central European sublineage of Puumala virus. In the neighborhood of the rodent trapping site two cases of human infection by the Puumala virus were verified.