Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in 4 US soldiers, South Korea, 2005.
Four US soldiers acquired hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome while training near the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, in 2005. Hantaan virus sequences were amplified by reverse transcription-PCR from patient serum samples and from lung tissues of striped field mice (Apodemus agrarius) captured at training sites. Epidemiologic investigations specified the ecology of possible sites of patient infection.
Song
Jin Won
JW
Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Korea University, 126-1, 5Ka, Anam-Dong, Sungbuk-Gu, Seoul 136-705, South Korea. jwsong@korea.ac.kr
Moon
Sung Sil
SS
Gu
Se Hun
SH
Song
Ki Joon
KJ
Baek
Luck Ju
LJ
Kim
Heung Chul
HC
Kijek
Todd
T
O'Guinn
Monica L
ML
Lee
John S
JS
Turell
Michael J
MJ
Klein
Terry A
TA
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D004199:Disease Vectors; D018063:Hantaan virus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006480:Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel; D051189:Murinae / Q000821:virology; D010802:Phylogeny; D056910:Republic of Korea / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States
D017931:DNA Primers; D004279:DNA, Viral