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Tula virus infection associated with fever and exanthema after a wild rodent bite
D Schultze1, A Lundkvist, U Blauenstein
1Department of Virology, Institute for Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Frohbergstrasse 3, 9001 St. Gallen, Switzerland. detlev.schultze@gd-ikmi.sg.ch
Abstract:
Reported here is the first case of human acute infection with Tula virus, which occurred in a 12-year-old boy in Switzerland. This hantavirus had been considered apathogenic to humans, and in Switzerland only TULV-genome sequences have been demonstrated in wild rodents to date. In this case, paronychia, fever and exanthema occurred after the patient was bitten by a wild rodent, indicating an unusual route of hantavirus transmission. Thus, Tula virus infection should be taken into account in patients with appropriate clinical symptoms and contact with rodents.
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