ArticleEpidemiology and infection2017
High prevalence of Seoul hantavirus in a breeding colony of pet rats.
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- Hantavirus as a persistent zoonotic risk: epidemiology and current pharmacological management.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
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- The ecology of viruses in urban rodents with a focus on SARS-CoV-2.Emerging microbes & infections · 2023Article
- ZoonoticViruses · 2023Review
- Epidemiology of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Tai'an area.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Immunological Responses to Seoul Orthohantavirus in Experimentally and Naturally Infected Brown Rats (Viruses · 2021Article
- Seoul Virus in Pet and Feeder Rats in The Netherlands.Viruses · 2021Article
- Seoul Virus Associated with Pet Rats, Scotland, UK, 2019.Emerging infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Detection and Genetic Characterization of Seoul Virus in Liver Tissue Samples FromFrontiers in veterinary science · 2021Article
- Revisiting the genetic diversity of emerging hantaviruses circulating in Europe using a pan-viral resequencing microarray.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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- Detection of Seoul virus in wild brown rats (The Veterinary record · 2019Article
- The ecological dynamics of hantavirus diseases: From environmental variability to disease prevention largely based on data from China.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Review
- Autochthonous Human Case of Seoul Virus Infection, the Netherlands.Emerging infectious diseases · 2018Article
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Abstract
As part of further investigations into three linked haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) cases in Wales and England, 21 rats from a breeding colony in Cherwell, and three rats from a household in Cheltenham were screened for hantavirus. Hantavirus RNA was detected in either the lungs and/or kidney of 17/21 (81%) of the Cherwell rats tested, higher than previously detected by blood testing alone (7/21, 33%), and in the kidneys of all three Cheltenham rats. The partial L gene sequences obtained from 10 of the Cherwell rats and the three Cheltenham rats were identical to each other and the previously reported UK Cherwell strain. Seoul hantavirus (SEOV) RNA was detected in the heart, kidney, lung, salivary gland and spleen (but not in the liver) of an individual rat from the Cherwell colony suspected of being the source of SEOV. Serum from 20/20 of the Cherwell rats and two associated HFRS cases had high levels of SEOV-specific antibodies (by virus neutralisation). The high prevalence of SEOV in both sites and the moderately severe disease in the pet rat owners suggest that SEOV in pet rats poses a greater public health risk than previously considered.
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