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First evidence of Seoul hantavirus in the wild rat population in the Netherlands

Jenny Verner-CarlssonDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Zoonosis Science Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Public Health Agency of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
, MSci,
Mare LõhmusDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Zoonosis Science Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Institute for Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
(Associate Professor) ,
Karin SundströmDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Zoonosis Science Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
, PhD,
Tanja M. StrandDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Zoonosis Science Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
, PhD,
Dr. Monique VerkerkSymbiant Pathology Expert Centre, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
,
Chantal ReuskenDepartment of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;Centre for Infectious Disease Control, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
, PhD,
Kumiko YoshimatsuDepartment of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
, PhD,
Jiro ArikawaDepartment of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
(Professor) ,
Frank van de GootSymbiant Pathology Expert Centre, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
, PhD &
Åke LundkvistDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Zoonosis Science Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Public Health Agency of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
(Professor) show all
Article: 27215 | Received 08 Jan 2015, Accepted 13 Jan 2015, Published online: 06 Feb 2015

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