Host range and spillover infections of rodent- and insectivore-borne hantaviruses

• Main Author: Schlegel, Matthias
• Other Authors: Ulrich, Rainer G.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: o. Verl. 2013
• Subjects: Text; ddc:570; Hantavirus > Spillover Infections > Host range > Europe; Eia; Tula; Microtus arvalis
• Online Access: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:9-001453-0; https://www.openagrar.de/receive/openagrar_mods_00002694; https://www.openagrar.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/Document_derivate_00002703/SD2013113D.pdf; http://ub-ed.ub.uni-greifswald.de/opus/volltexte/2013/1453/

Hantaviruses (family Bunyaviridae) are enveloped viruses with a segmented RNA genome of negative polarity. They can cause two different diseases in humans, the hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Europe and Asia and the hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome in America. The transmission to humans...