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. 2002 Dec;8(12):1509-11.
doi: 10.3201/eid0812.010518.

Puumala hantavirus infection in humans and in the reservoir host, Ardennes region, France

F Sauvage  1 , C Penalba, P Vuillaume, F Boue, D Coudrier, D Pontier, M Artois
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Puumala hantavirus infection in humans and in the reservoir host, Ardennes region, France

F Sauvage et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002 Dec.

Abstract

We compared the occurrence of nephropathia epidemica cases, over a multi-annual population cycle, in northeastern France with the hantavirus serology for bank voles captured in the same area. We discuss hypotheses to explain the pattern of infection in both humans and rodents and their synchrony.

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Figure 1
Number of captured bank voles (susceptible in light grey, seropositive in black) per trap line in Elan.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Temporal correspondence of reservoir contamination and of human cases of nephropathia epidemica over a typical 3-year cycle. Grey bars: the number of HFRS cases in humans per month for the Ardennes region (France) from 1991 to 1996; black points: observed hantavirus antibody prevalence in bank voles by trapping session in Elan forest over the same period. Right scale: percentage of seropositive voles in the trapped sample.
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