Analysis of Complete Puumala Virus Genome, Finland

Abstract

Puumala virus causes nephropathia epidemica, a rodent-borne zoonosis that is endemic to Europe. We sequenced the complete Puumala virus genome that was directly recovered from a person who died and compared it with those of viruses from local bank voles. The virus strain involved was neither a unique nor rare genetic variant.

Keywords

• HFRS
• nephropathia epidemica
• Puumala hantavirus
• viruses
• Finland
• hantavirus