Abstract

In Europe, hantavirus infections usually present as hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and its mild form nephropathia epidemica, while clinical cases with severe pulmonary affections are extremely rare and appear to be confined to infections by New World hanta viruses in the Americas. We report on a female patient from Northern Germany, who suffered primarily from severe acute respiratory distress syndrome-like pulmonary failure due to Dobrava hantavirus infection that was complicated by acute renal insufficiency.

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Authors

• M. Schütt¹
• H. Meisel²
• D.H. Krüger²
• R. Ulrich²
• K. Dalhoff³
• C. Dodt¹

Departments

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• ³ Departments of Internal Medicine I and III, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, and
• ² Institute of Virology, Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Address

Dr. M. Schütt
University of Lübeck, Department of Internal Medicine I
Ratzeburger Allee 160
D-23538 Lübeck, Germany
Email: [email protected]

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