Puumala virus causes nephropathia epidemica, a rodent-borne zoonosis that is endemic to Europe. We sequenced the complete Puumala virus genome that was directly recovered from a person who died and compared it with those of viruses from local bank voles. The virus strain involved was neither a unique nor rare genetic variant.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3557877 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1811.120747 | DOI Listing |
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