Monday, 23 January 2017

PRO/AH/EDR> Hantavirus update - Americas (07): USA (IL,WI) Seoul virus, comment

Hantavirus -- United States
It might be too late now for relevant application in the Illinois and Wisconsin SEOV-induced HFRS [hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome] cases, but a simple urine dipstick test at hospital admission, or shortly thereafter, might be decisive in the decision-making strategy of the attending physician. A case without massive initial proteinuria [the presence of an excess of serum proteins in the urine] is probably not a HFRS case. In our experience, and particularly that in Finland (the country

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