Abdullah Mahmud-Al-Rafat Author

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Understanding the Complex Relationship between the Human Pathogen Hantavirus and its Rodent Reservoirs Underpins a Rational Disease Control Strategy

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Abdullah Mahmud-Al-Rafat, Mahbub-E-Sobhani and Andrew W Taylor-Robinson

Hantaviruses commonly infect rodents in which they do not cause any significant symptoms of disease. In contrast, humans serve occasionally as a dead-end host when they inadvertently become infected through the bite of an infectious rodent or via contact with its urine, faeces and/or saliva. The virus was first recognized in the 1970s as a cause of severe haemorrhagic fever. The outcome is fatal in up to 50% of cases due to view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2324-8955.1000147

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