Hantavirus infection: a case report from India.
The clinical presentation of hantavirus infections in India is unclear. We report here a case of hantavirus infection in a 46 year old quarry worker presenting with fever, abdominal pain, jaundice, thrombocytopenia and renal dysfunction. Seroconversion and rising anti-hantavirus IgG titers were taken as evidence of hantavirus infection. Clinicians should consider hantavirus infections in the differential diagnosis of acute febrile illness along with scrub typhus, leptospirosis and dengue.
Chandy
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Department of Clinical Virology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Boorugu
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Chrispal
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Thomas
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Abraham
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Sridharan
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D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000097:blood; D006476:Orthohantavirus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018778:Hantavirus Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000097:blood; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D007074:Immunoglobulin G