Importation of Human Seoul Virus Infection to Germany from Indonesia

Abstract

Seoul hantavirus–associated hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome cases are rare outside Asia and have not yet been found in Germany. We report clinical and molecular evidence for a Seoul virus infection in a patient in Germany. The infection was most likely acquired during a stay in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Keywords

• Seoul virus
• SEOV
• viruses
• hantaviruses
• importation
• imported case