1. Discovery of hantaviruses and of the Hantavirus genus: personal and historical perspectives of the Presidents of the International Society of Hantaviruses.
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Lee HW, Vaheri A, and Schmaljohn CS
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- Animals, Congresses as Topic, Orthohantavirus pathogenicity, Hantavirus Infections epidemiology, Hantavirus Infections transmission, Hantavirus Infections virology, Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome epidemiology, Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome pathology, Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome transmission, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome epidemiology, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome pathology, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome transmission, History, 20th Century, History, 21st Century, Humans, Republic of Korea epidemiology, Rodent Diseases transmission, Rodent Diseases virology, Rodentia, United States epidemiology, Orthohantavirus physiology, Hantavirus Infections veterinary, Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome history, Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome history, Rodent Diseases epidemiology, Virology history
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We three authors, the two past presidents (HWL and AV) and the current president (CSS) of the International Society for Hantaviruses (ISH) have attended most of the nine International Conferences on HFRS, HPS and Hantaviruses (Table 1). These conferences have provided a forum for a synergistic group of clinicians, basic researchers, mammalogists, epidemiologists and ecologists to share their expertise and interests in all aspects of hantavirus research. Much of what is now hantavirus dogma was only conjecture when HWL organized the first conference in Seoul, Korea in 1989. Herein, we provide our reflections on key events in hantavirus research. As we come from distinct areas of the world and have had individual historical experiences, we certainly have our own geocentric opinions about the key events. Nevertheless, we agree that the discovery of hantaviruses has taken an interesting and unpredictable track to where we are today., (Published by Elsevier B.V.)
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- 2014
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