Hantaviruses in small wild living mammals in Czechoslovakia. Results of a 1983-1989 study.
During a 7- year period were hunted small wild living mammals and examined by ELISA and RIA techniques for the presence of hantavirus antigen and/or antibodies by MFA. In total 3,050 animals of 16 species caught in 9 out of 10 regions of Czechoslovakia, were examined. The proportion of positive animals was 4.4%. To the positive ones with the serotype 2 (Western type) belonged the following: M. arvalis, C. glareolus, P. subterraneus, A. sylvaticus, A. flavicollis. To the Eastern serotype: A. agrarius in eastern Slovakia, A. flavicollis in North of Bohemia and A. sylvaticus in South of Moravia. The repeatedly examined localities were found to be either repeatedly positive or repeatedly negative. The antigen titres in the lungs of M. arvalis were constant irrespective of sex and season of capture. They were, however, much higher in young animals, whereas the proportion of positivities was higher in adults ones. The titres of antigen in the lungs of C. glareolus never exceeded those of M. arvalis.
Danes
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Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Pejcoch
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Hubálek
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Halouzka
J
J
Juricová
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Zima
J
J
Tkachenko
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EA
Dzagurová
T K
TK
Ivanov
A P
AP
Svandová
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D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild / Q000382:microbiology*; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D003604:Czechoslovakia; D005260:Female; D006476:Orthohantavirus / Q000145:classification / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008297:Male; D012377:Rodentia / Q000382:microbiology*; D012703:Serotyping
D000956:Antigens, Viral