The hantaviruses of Europe: from the bedside to the bench.

• Other Authors: Clement, J., Heyman, P., McKenna, P., Colson, P., Avsic-Zupanc, T.
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Research Article; Animals; Hantavirus; Hantavirus Infections; Humans; Rats; The Bench; Topografov; Tula; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: http://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/15398/

In Europe, hantavirus disease can hardly be called an emerging zoonosis; it is rather a rediscovered disease. Since 1934 an epidemic condition with primarily renal involvement has been described in Sweden. Nowadays, hundreds to thousands of cases per year are registered in Fennoscandia, fluctuating...