Life-Threatening Sochi Virus Infections, Russia

Abstract

Sochi virus was recently identified as a new hantavirus genotype carried by the Black Sea field mouse, Apodemus ponticus. We evaluated 62 patients in Russia with Sochi virus infection. Most clinical cases were severe, and the case-fatality rate was as high as 14.5%.

Keywords

• Hantavirus
• hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
• Apodemus ponticus
• Sochi virus
• Russia
• viruses