1. Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, Russia
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Svetlana S. Kurashova, Boris Klempa, Viacheslav G. Morozov, Evgeniy A. Tkachenko, Alexandra S. Balkina, Dzagurova Tk, Detlev H. Krüger, Alexandra A. Siniugina, Alla D. Bernshtein, Aydar A. Ishmukhametov, and Petr E. Tkachenko
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Microbiology (medical) ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Orthohantavirus ,030231 tropical medicine ,lcsh:Medicine ,virus ,hantavirus ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,Russia ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Epidemiology ,Research Letter ,Medicine ,Humans ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,viruses ,Public Health Surveillance ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Geography, Medical ,Mortality ,Hantavirus ,business.industry ,Incidence ,lcsh:R ,virus diseases ,Virology ,zoonoses ,Infectious Diseases ,Virus type ,Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome ,Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, Russia ,epidemiology ,business ,Regional differences - Abstract
In Russia, 131,590 cases of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome caused by 6 different hantaviruses were reported during 2000-2017. Most cases, 98.4%, were reported in western Russia. The average case-fatality rate was 0.4%, and strong regional differences were seen, depending on the predominant virus type.
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- 2019