1. Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, Russia.
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Tkachenko EA, Ishmukhametov AA, Dzagurova TK, Bernshtein AD, Morozov VG, Siniugina AA, Kurashova SS, Balkina AS, Tkachenko PE, Kruger DH, and Klempa B
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- Geography, Medical, Orthohantavirus classification, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome virology, Humans, Incidence, Mortality, Public Health Surveillance, Russia epidemiology, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome epidemiology
- Abstract
In Russia, 131,590 cases of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome caused by 6 different hantaviruses were reported during 2000-2017. Most cases, 98.4%, were reported in western Russia. The average case-fatality rate was 0.4%, and strong regional differences were seen, depending on the predominant virus type.
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- 2019
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