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Puumala Virus in Bank Voles, Lithuania

2016; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Volume: 23; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3201/eid2301.161400

1080-6059

Petra Straková, Sandra Jagdmann, Linas Balčiauskas, Laima Balčiauskienė, Stephan Drewes, Rainer G. Ulrich,

Vector-Borne Animal Diseases

Abstract Little is known about the presence of human pathogenic Puumala virus (PUUV) in Lithuania. We detected this virus in bank voles (Myodes glareolus) in a region of this country in which previously PUUV-seropositive humans were identified. Our results are consistent with heterogeneous distributions of PUUV in other countries in Europe.