title: First molecular evidence for Puumala hantavirus in Slovakia.
abstract: We report on the first Puumala hantavirus nucleotide sequence (strain Opina-916) amplified from a bank vole trapped in Slovakia, central Europe. Phylogenetic analysis of the S-segment sequence grouped the virus within the western/central European sublineage of Puumala virus. In the neighborhood of the rodent trapping site two cases of human infection by the Puumala virus were verified.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Virology, Charité School of Medicine, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Leitmeyer
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sibold
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Meisel
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ulrich
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Labuda
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Krüger
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003411:Arvicolinae / Q000821:virology*; D018778:Hantavirus Infections / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010802:Phylogeny; D029262:Puumala virus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D018154:Slovakia / Q000453:epidemiology