Second external quality assurance study for the serological diagnosis of hantaviruses in Europe.

• Main Authors: Camille Escadafal (Author), Tatjana Avšič-Županc (Author), Olli Vapalahti (Author), Bo Niklasson (Author), Anette Teichmann (Author), Matthias Niedrig (Author), Oliver Donoso-Mantke (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Hantaviruses are endemic throughout the world and hosted by rodents and insectivores. Two human zoonoses, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), are caused by hantaviruses and case fatality rates have reached 12% for HFRS and 50% for HPS in some outbrea...