Reservoir-driven heterogeneous distribution of recorded human Puumala virus cases in South-West Germany

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/17:00108692

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zph.12319" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zph.12319</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zph.12319" target="_blank" >10.1111/zph.12319</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reservoir-driven heterogeneous distribution of recorded human Puumala virus cases in South-West Germany

Original language description

Endemic regions for Puumala virus (PUUV) are located in the most affected federal state Baden-Wuerttemberg, South-West Germany, where high numbers of notified human hantavirus disease cases have been occurring for a long time. The distribution of human cases in Baden-Wuerttemberg is, however, heterogeneous, with a high number of cases recorded during 2012 in four districts (H districts) but a low number or even no cases recorded in four other districts (L districts). Bank vole monitoring during 2012, following a beech (Fagus sylvatica) mast year, resulted in the trapping of 499 bank voles, the host of PUUV. Analyses indicated PUUV prevalences of 7–50% (serological) and 1.8–27.5% (molecular) in seven of eight districts, but an absence of PUUV in one L district. The PUUV prevalence differed significantly between bank voles in H and L districts. In the following year 2013, 161 bank voles were trapped, with reduced bank vole abundance in almost all investigated districts except one. In 2013, no PUUV infections were detected in voles from seven of eight districts. In conclusion, the linear modelling approach indicated that the heterogeneous distribution of human PUUV cases in South-West Germany was caused by different factors including the abundance of PUUV RNA-positive bank voles, as well as by the interaction of beech mast and the proportional coverage of beech and oak (Quercus spec.) forest per district. These results can aid developing local public health risk management measures and early warning models.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30303 - Infectious Diseases

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Zoonoses and Public Health

ISSN

1863-1959

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

64

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

381-390

UT code for WoS article

000405293000007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85006410479