1. Seoul Virus Associated with Pet Rats, Scotland, UK, 2019.
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Shepherd, James G., Blunsum, Andrew E., Carmichael, Stephen, Smollett, Katherine, Maxwell-Scott, Hector, Farmer, Eoghan C. W., Osborne, Jane, MacLean, Alasdair, Ashraf, Shirin, Shah, Rajiv, Gunson, Rory, da Silva Filipe, Ana, Aarons, Emma J., and Thomson, Emma C.
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HEMORRHAGIC fever with renal syndrome , *NUCLEOTIDE sequencing , *HANTAVIRUS diseases - Abstract
We describe a case of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome caused by Seoul virus in a woman in Scotland, UK. Whole-genome sequencing showed the virus belonged to a lineage characterized by recent international expansion, probably driven by trade in pet rats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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