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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 74(4), 2006, pp. 612-614
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SHORT REPORT


DUAL INFECTIONS WITH PUUMALA VIRUS AND LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR LORA IN A BANK VOLE (CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS)

LIDIJA CVETKO*, NENAD TURK, ALEMKA MARKOTIC, ZORAN MILAS, JOSIP MARGALETIC, MARICA MILETIC-MEDVED, ALEXANDER PLYUSNIN, GUY BARANTON, DANIELE POSTIC, AND TATJANA AVSIC-ZUPANC
Department for Research and Development, Institute of Immunology, Zagreb, Croatia; Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, and Department of Forest Protection and Hunting, Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; Institute of Public Health, Slavonski Brod, Croatia; Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Unité de Bactériologie Moléculaire et Médicale, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

ABSTRACT

Leptospirosis and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome are public health problems in Croatia. Diagnosis and epidemiology of these diseases are complicated because these two diseases are sympatric in certain areas. We describe a natural dual infection of Puumala virus and a leptospire in a bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus).

Received July 14, 2005. Accepted for publication November 28, 2005.

Acknowledgments: We thank Professor Charles H. Calisher (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO) for editorial advice.

Financial support: This work was supported by grants TP-01/0021-06 (P. I. A. Markotic) and 0021005 (P. I. A. Markotic) from the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport, and by the Pasteur Institute (Paris, France).

* Address correspondence to Lidija Cvetko, Institute of Immunology, Department for Research and Development, Cellular Immunology Unit, Rockefellerova 10, HR-10 000 Zagreb, Croatia. E-mail: lcvetko{at}imz.hr

Authors’ addresses: Lidija Cvetko and Alemka Markotic, Institute of Immunology, Department for Research and Development, Cellular Immunology Unit, Rockefellerova 10, HR-10 000 Zagreb, Croatia, Telephone: 385-1-468-4500, Fax: 385-1-468-4303, E-mails: lcvetko{at}imz.hr and amarkotic{at}net.hr. Nenad Turk and Zoran Milas, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Heinzelova 55, HR-10 000 Zagreb, Croatia, Telephone: 385-1-239-0207 and 385-1-239-0200. Fax: 385-1- 244-1390, E-mails: turk{at}vef.hr and zoran.milas{at}vef.hr Josip Margaletic, Department of Forest Protection and Hunting, Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, Svetosimunska 25, HR-10 000 Zagreb, Croatia, Telephone: 385-1-235-2555, Fax: 385-1-231-8616, E-mail: josip.margaletic{at}inet.hr. Marica Miletic-Medved, Institute of Public Health, Vladimira Nazora bb, HR-35 000 Slavonski Brod, Croatia, Telephone: 385-35-444-796, Fax: 385-35-440-244, E-mail: zzjzsb{at}sb.htnet.hr. Alexander Plyusnin, Haartman Institute, Department of Virology, PO Box 21, FIN-00014, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Telephone: 358-9-1912-6486, Fax: 358-9-1912-6491, E-mail: Alexander.Plyusnin{at}Helsinki.Fi. Guy Baranton, and Daniele Postic, Institut Pasteur, Unite de Bacteriologie Medicale et Moleculaire, 25–28 Rue de Dr. Roux, Paris Cedex 15, France, Telephone: 33-1-45-68-83-37, Fax: 33-1-40-61-30-01, E-mails: gbaran{at}pasteur.fr and dpostic{at}pasteur.fr. Tatjana Avsic-Zupanc, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Zaloska 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, Telephone: 386-1-543-7450, Fax: 386-1-5437401, E-mail: tatjana.avsic{at}MF.UNI-LJ.SI.






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