ArticleEpidemiology and infection2017
A seroprevalence study to determine the frequency of hantavirus infection in people exposed to wild and pet fancy rats in England.
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- Seroprevalence of hantavirus infection in non-epidemic settings over four decades: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- A Multi-Valent Hantavirus Vaccine Based on Recombinant Modified Vaccinia Ankara Reduces Viral Load in a Mouse Infection Model.Vaccines · 2025Article
- Seroprevalence and risk factors of hantavirus and hepatitis E virus exposure among wildlife farmers in Vietnam.PloS one · 2025Article
- Hantavirus antibody seroprevalence and risk factors among adults in West Kazakhstan, 2023.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Seoul Virus Associated with Pet Rats, Scotland, UK, 2019.Emerging infectious diseases · 2021Article
- A rare case of tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis (TINU) syndrome: Answers.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2020Article
- Hantavirus infection in type I interferon receptor-deficient (A129) mice.The Journal of general virology · 2020Article
- Epidemiologic Characteristics of Domestic Patients with Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Taiwan: A 19-Year Retrospective Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Respiratory Symptoms Among Domestic Waste Collectors.Medeniyet medical journal · 2020Article
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- Detection of Seoul virus in wild brown rats (The Veterinary record · 2019Article
- Analysis of exotic squirrel trade and detection of human infections with variegated squirrel bornavirus 1, Germany, 2005 to 2018.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2019Article
- Autochthonous Human Case of Seoul Virus Infection, the Netherlands.Emerging infectious diseases · 2018Article
- Pets, Purity and Pollution: Why Conventional Models of Disease Transmission Do Not Work for Pet Rat Owners.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
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10 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Recent cases of acute kidney injury due to Seoul hantavirus infection from exposure to wild or pet fancy rats suggest this infection is increasing in prevalence in the UK. We conducted a seroprevalence study in England to estimate cumulative exposure in at-risk groups with contact with domesticated and wild rats to assess risk and inform public health advice. From October 2013 to June 2014, 844 individual blood samples were collected. Hantavirus seroprevalence amongst the pet fancy rat owner group was 34.1% (95% CI 23·9-45·7%) compared with 3·3% (95% CI 1·6-6·0) in a baseline control group, 2·4% in those with occupational exposure to pet fancy rats (95% CI 0·6-5·9) and 1·7% with occupational exposure to wild rats (95% CI 0·2-5·9). Variation in seroprevalence across groups with different exposure suggests that occupational exposure to pet and wild rats carries a very low risk, if any. However incidence of hantavirus infection among pet fancy rat owners/breeders, whether asymptomatic, undiagnosed mild viral illness or more severe disease may be very common and public health advice needs to be targeted to this at-risk group.
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