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Tula Virus Infection Associated with Fever and Exanthema After a Wild Rodent Bite

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Reported here is the first case of human acute infection with Tula virus, which occurred in a 12-year-old boy in Switzerland. This hantavirus had been considered apathogenic to humans, and in Switzerland only TULV-genome sequences have been demonstrated in wild rodents to date. In this case, paronychia, fever and exanthema occurred after the patient was bitten by a wild rodent, indicating an unusual route of hantavirus transmission. Thus, Tula virus infection should be taken into account in patients with appropriate clinical symptoms and contact with rodents.

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  1. Department of Virology, Institute for Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Frohbergstrasse 3, 9001 St. Gallen, Switzerland

    D. Schultze

  2. Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, S-17182 Solna, Sweden

    Å. Lundkvist

  3. University Childrens Hospital Basel, Clinic of Neuropediatry, PO Box, 4005 Basel, Switzerland

    U. Blauenstein

  4. Research Laboratory for Vector-Borne Diseases and National Reference Center for Hantavirus Infections, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Bruynstraat 2, 1120 Brussels, Belgium

    P. Heyman

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Schultze, D., Lundkvist, Å., Blauenstein, U. et al. Tula Virus Infection Associated with Fever and Exanthema After a Wild Rodent Bite. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 21, 304–306 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-002-0705-5

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