Abstract
Four US soldiers acquired hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome while training near the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, in 2005. Hantaan virus sequences were amplified by reverse transcription-PCR from patient serum samples and from lung tissues of striped field mice (Apodemus agrarius) captured at training sites. Epidemiologic investigations specified the ecology of possible sites of patient infection.
Publication types
-
Case Reports
-
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
MeSH terms
-
Adult
-
Animals
-
Base Sequence
-
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology*
-
Communicable Diseases, Emerging / virology
-
DNA Primers / genetics
-
DNA, Viral / genetics
-
Disease Vectors
-
Hantaan virus* / classification
-
Hantaan virus* / genetics
-
Hantaan virus* / isolation & purification
-
Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome / epidemiology*
-
Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome / virology
-
Humans
-
Male
-
Military Personnel*
-
Murinae / virology
-
Phylogeny
-
Republic of Korea / epidemiology
-
United States