Preliminary Evidence That Hantaan or a Closely Related Virus is Enzootic in Domestic Rodents

Theodore F. Tsai; Sally P. Bauer; Donna R. Sasso; Joseph B. Mccormick; Henry Bradford; Charles T. Caraway; Louise M. Mcfarland; Oscar Medrano; George Soulie; James W. Leduc; Gregory A. Smith; Lauren R. Bagley; Sherman E. Hasty; Karl M. Johnson; Pyung Woo Lee; Richard Yanagihara; Maryellen C. Franko; Herbert L. Amyx; Clarence J. Gibbs; D. Carleton Gajdusek; Robert Traub

doi:10.1056/NEJM198209023071013

Preliminary Evidence That Hantaan or a Closely Related Virus is Enzootic in Domestic Rodents

Theodore F. Tsai, Sally P. Bauer, Donna R. Sasso, Joseph B. Mccormick, Henry Bradford, Charles T. Caraway, Louise M. Mcfarland, Oscar Medrano, George Soulie, James W. Leduc, Gregory A. Smith, Lauren R. Bagley, Sherman E. Hasty, Karl M. Johnson, Pyung Woo Lee, Richard Yanagihara, Maryellen C. Franko, Herbert L. Amyx, Clarence J. Gibbs, D. Carleton GajdusekRobert Traub

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To the Editor: Rodent-borne viral nephropathy¹ — known as epidemic hemorrhagic fever in Korea,^2,3 hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Central Europe and Russia,³ and nephropathia epidemica in Scandinavia⁴ — has not, to our knowledge, been reported in North America. We present preliminary data suggesting that Hantaan virus, the agent of rodent-borne viral nephropathy in Asia,⁵ or a closely related virus, infects domestic rats (Rattus norvegicus) in New Orleans, Louisiana. Serum collected from Louisiana rats that had been trapped in the course of surveillance for plague and murine typhus was examined for antibody to Hantaan virus by an indirect fluorescent-antibody.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	623-625
Number of pages	3
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	307
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198209023071013
State	Published - Sep 2 1982
Externally published	Yes

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Tsai, T. F., Bauer, S. P., Sasso, D. R., Mccormick, J. B., Bradford, H., Caraway, C. T., Mcfarland, L. M., Medrano, O., Soulie, G., Leduc, J. W., Smith, G. A., Bagley, L. R., Hasty, S. E., Johnson, K. M., Lee, P. W., Yanagihara, R., Franko, M. C., Amyx, H. L., Gibbs, C. J., ... Traub, R. (1982). Preliminary Evidence That Hantaan or a Closely Related Virus is Enzootic in Domestic Rodents. New England Journal of Medicine, 307(10), 623-625. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198209023071013

Tsai, TF, Bauer, SP, Sasso, DR, Mccormick, JB, Bradford, H, Caraway, CT, Mcfarland, LM, Medrano, O, Soulie, G, Leduc, JW, Smith, GA, Bagley, LR, Hasty, SE, Johnson, KM, Lee, PW, Yanagihara, R, Franko, MC, Amyx, HL, Gibbs, CJ, Gajdusek, DC & Traub, R 1982, 'Preliminary Evidence That Hantaan or a Closely Related Virus is Enzootic in Domestic Rodents', New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 307, no. 10, pp. 623-625. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198209023071013

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