1. [The epidemiological, epizootological, and etiological characteristics of the 2006-2007 outbreak of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in the Tambov Region].
- Author
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Mutnykh ES, Dzagurova TK, Bernshteĭn AD, Kalinkina EV, Korotina NA, Apekina NS, Sotskova SE, Tolstova GA, Suvorin AP, and Tkachenko EA
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- Adolescent, Adult, Animals, Child, Child, Preschool, Disease Reservoirs, Female, Orthohantavirus classification, Orthohantavirus immunology, Humans, Male, Mice, Middle Aged, Russia epidemiology, Zoonoses transmission, Zoonoses virology, Antibodies, Viral blood, Arvicolinae virology, Disease Outbreaks, Orthohantavirus isolation & purification, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome diagnosis, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome epidemiology, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome virology
- Abstract
The findings suggest that there are natural foci of hantavirus infection in the Tambov Region. There is evidence that Dobrava/Belgrade hantavirus (DOB-Aa) was a leading etiological agent in the outbreak of the disease in the winter of 2006-2007. Epidemiological analysis showed that the outbreak of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) afflicted the region during November to April, by reaching its peak in January (52.2%). Among the patients with HFRS, rural dwellers were 91%. People were infected with the virus mainly by taking care of domestic animals (97.2%). The reservoir of the virus and the source of its human infection in the outbreak was a field mouse, its western subspecies Apodemus agrarius agrarius, which was absolutely dominated among all the virus carriers.
- Published
- 2011