Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2012)

Multiple Synchronous Outbreaks of Puumala Virus, Germany, 2010

  • Jakob Ettinger,
  • Jorg Hofmann,
  • Martin Enders,
  • Friedemann Tewald,
  • Rainer M. Oehme,
  • Ulrike M. Rosenfeld,
  • Hanan Sheikh Ali,
  • Mathias Schlegel,
  • Sandra Essbauer,
  • Anja Osterberg,
  • Jens Jacob,
  • Daniela Reil,
  • Boris Klempa,
  • Rainer G. Ulrich,
  • Detlev H. Kruger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1809.111447
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 9
pp. 1461 – 1464

Abstract

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To investigate 2,017 cases of hantavirus disease in Germany, we compared 38 new patient-derived Puumala virus RNA sequences identified in 2010 with bank vole–derived small segment RNA sequences. The epidemic process was driven by outbreaks of 6 Puumala virus clades comprising strains of human and vole origin. Each clade corresponded to a different outbreak region.

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