Mortality rate patterns for hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome caused by Puumala virus

Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Oct;16(10):1584-6. doi: 10.3201/eid1610.100242.

Abstract

To investigate nephropathia epidemica in Sweden during 1997-2007, we determined case-fatality rates for 5,282 patients with this disease. Overall, 0.4% died of acute nephropathia epidemica ≤3 months after diagnosis. Case-fatality rates increased with age. Only women showed an increased case-fatality rate during the first year after diagnosis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Age Factors
  • Aged
  • Female
  • Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome / mortality*
  • Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome / virology
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Puumala virus* / pathogenicity
  • Sex Factors
  • Survival Rate
  • Sweden / epidemiology