title: [Serotyping of patients with epidemic hemorrhagic fever (EHF) and serotyping and antigen typing of main hosts of EHF in Shandong province].
abstract: Serotyping with hemagglutination-inhibition test (HI) on 458 patients with EHF showed that 419 (91.48%) of them belonged to the house-rat type, 33 (7.21%) belonged to the wild-rat type, and 6 (1.31%) were undetermined. The majority (80-100%) of the patients in various regions belonged to the house-rat type. The type of the virus antigen and the type of the antibody of rats were in conformity with the species of rats. These indicate that the epidemic areas of EHF in Shandong Province are mixed-type epidemic areas, predominantly the house-rat type.
authors.affiliation: Army Military Medical Research Institute, Jinan.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000097:blood; D002648:Child; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D005260:Female; D006476:Orthohantavirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000276:immunology; D006385:Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests; D006480:Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009115:Muridae / Q000382:microbiology*; D051381:Rats / Q000382:microbiology*; D012703:Serotyping
chemical_list: D000956:Antigens, Viral