Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Yugoslavia, 1986

Ana Gligić Institute of Immunobiology and Virology “Torlak,”, Military Medical Academy, Institute for Health Protection, National Institutes of Health, Center for Infectious Diseases, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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Mirčceta Obradović Institute of Immunobiology and Virology “Torlak,”, Military Medical Academy, Institute for Health Protection, National Institutes of Health, Center for Infectious Diseases, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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Rade Stojanović Institute of Immunobiology and Virology “Torlak,”, Military Medical Academy, Institute for Health Protection, National Institutes of Health, Center for Infectious Diseases, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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Novica Vujošević Institute of Immunobiology and Virology “Torlak,”, Military Medical Academy, Institute for Health Protection, National Institutes of Health, Center for Infectious Diseases, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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Angelina Ovčcarić Institute of Immunobiology and Virology “Torlak,”, Military Medical Academy, Institute for Health Protection, National Institutes of Health, Center for Infectious Diseases, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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Marina Frušic Institute of Immunobiology and Virology “Torlak,”, Military Medical Academy, Institute for Health Protection, National Institutes of Health, Center for Infectious Diseases, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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Clarence J. Gibbs Jr. Institute of Immunobiology and Virology “Torlak,”, Military Medical Academy, Institute for Health Protection, National Institutes of Health, Center for Infectious Diseases, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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Charles H. Calisher Institute of Immunobiology and Virology “Torlak,”, Military Medical Academy, Institute for Health Protection, National Institutes of Health, Center for Infectious Diseases, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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D. Carleton Gajdusek Institute of Immunobiology and Virology “Torlak,”, Military Medical Academy, Institute for Health Protection, National Institutes of Health, Center for Infectious Diseases, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1989.41.102
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Volume 41: Issue 1
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102–108
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An epidemic of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) occurred in Yugoslavia May–November 1986; all Republics and Provinces were involved. Serum samples were received from 260 of 276 persons with symptoms clinically compatible with a diagnosis of HFRS. Presumptive infection with a hantavirus was determined serologically for 161 of these. Many patients with serious clinical pictures, including severe renal insufficiency and shock, were hospitalized; 11 died. Indirect fluorescent antibody tests with antigens of 4 hantaviruses (Hantaan, Fojnica, Puumala, and the Vranica strain of Puumala virus) showed that > 1 serotype was circulating during this epidemic. Hantavirus antigens were detected in the lungs of 86 of 302 (28.5%) wild-caught small mammals.

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Copyright © 1989 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1989
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Jul 1989
Cover The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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0002-9637
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