A five-year perspective on the situation of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and status of the hantavirus reservoirs in Europe, 2005-2010

P Heyman; C S Ceianu; I Christova; N Tordo; M Beersma; M João Alves; Å Lundkvist; M Hukic; A Papa; A Tenorio; H Zelená; S Eßbauer; I Visontai; I Golovljova; J Connell; L Nicoletti; M Van Esbroeck; S Gjeruldsen Dudman; S W Aberle; T Avšić-Županc; G Korukluoglu; A Nowakowska; B Klempa; R G Ulrich; S Bino; O Engler; M Opp; A Vaheri

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A five-year perspective on the situation of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and status of the hantavirus reservoirs in Europe, 2005-2010
P Heyman¹ , C S Ceianu² , I Christova³ , N Tordo⁴ , M Beersma⁵ , M João Alves⁶ , Å Lundkvist⁷ , M Hukic⁸ , A Papa⁹ , A Tenorio¹⁰ , H Zelená¹¹ , S Eßbauer¹² , I Visontai¹³ , I Golovljova¹⁴ , J Connell¹⁵ , L Nicoletti¹⁶ , M Van Esbroeck¹⁷ , S Gjeruldsen Dudman¹⁸ , S W Aberle¹⁹ , T Avšić-Županc²⁰ , G Korukluoglu²¹ , A Nowakowska²² , B Klempa²³ , R G Ulrich²⁴ , S Bino²⁵ , O Engler²⁶ , M Opp²⁷ , A Vaheri²⁸
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Affiliations: ¹ Research Laboratory for Vector-borne Diseases and National Reference Laboratory for Hantavirus Infections, Brussels, Belgium ² Cantacuzino Institute, Vector-Borne Diseases Laboratory, Bucharest, Romania ³ National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria ⁴ Unit of the Biology of Emerging Viral Infections (UBIVE), Institut Pasteur, Lyon, France ⁵ Department of Virology, Erasmus University Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands ⁶ Centre for Vectors and Infectious Diseases Research (CEVDI), National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Águas de Moura, Portugal ⁷ Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control (SMI), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden ⁸ Clinical Centre, University of Sarajevo, Institute of Clinical Microbiology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina ⁹ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece ¹⁰ Arbovirus and Imported Viral Disease Unit, National Centre for Microbiology, Institute for Health Carlos III, Majadahonda, Spain ¹¹ Institute of Public Health, Ostrava, Czech Republic ¹² Department of Virology and Rickettsiology, Bundeswehr Institute for Microbiology, Munich, Germany ¹³ National Centre for Epidemiology, Budapest, Hungary ¹⁴ Department of Virology, National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia ¹⁵ Department of Medical Microbiology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland ¹⁶ Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediate Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Laboratory of Virology, Rome, Italy ¹⁷ Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium ¹⁸ Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Infectious Disease Control, Oslo, Norway ¹⁹ Department of Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria ²⁰ University of Ljubljana, Medical Faculty, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Ljubljana, Slovenia ²¹ Refik Saydam National Public Health Agency, Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey ²² Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, Voivodeship Sanitary-Epidemiological Station, Rzeszów, Poland ²³ Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia ²⁴ Friedrich-Loeffler Institute, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, World Organisation for Animal Health Collaborating Centre for Zoonoses in Europe, Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Greifswald - Insel Riems, Germany ²⁵ Institute of Public Health, Control of Infectious Diseases, Tirana, Albania ²⁶ Spiez Laboratory, Biology - Virology Group, Spiez, Switzerland ²⁷ Laboratoire National de Santé, Virologie, Luxembourg ²⁸ Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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Citation style for this article: Heyman P, Ceianu C S, Christova I, Tordo N, Beersma M, João Alves M, Lundkvist Å, Hukic M, Papa A, Tenorio A, Zelená H, Eßbauer S, Visontai I, Golovljova I, Connell J, Nicoletti L, Van Esbroeck M, Gjeruldsen Dudman S, Aberle S W, Avšić-Županc T, Korukluoglu G, Nowakowska A, Klempa B, Ulrich R G, Bino S, Engler O, Opp M, Vaheri A. A five-year perspective on the situation of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and status of the hantavirus reservoirs in Europe, 2005-2010. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(36):pii=19961. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.16.36.19961-en Received: 10 Dec 2010

Abstract

Hantavirus infections are reported from many countries in Europe and with highly variable annual case numbers. In 2010, more than 2,000 human cases were reported in Germany, and numbers above the baseline have also been registered in other European countries. Depending on the virus type human infections are characterised by mild to severe forms of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. The member laboratories of the European Network for diagnostics of Imported Viral Diseases present here an overview of the progression of human cases in the period from 2005 to 2010. Further we provide an update on the available diagnostic methods and endemic regions in their countries, with an emphasis on occurring virus types and reservoirs.