Are humans infected by Hantaviruses in Australia?

Bi, Peng; Cameron, A Scott; Higgins, G.; Burrell, Caitlin E.

doi:10.1111/j.1445-5994.2005.00954.x

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“…In addition, these comprehensive studies will help to document the frequency of spillover infections of nonreservoirs, which might be higher than previously expected, at least for certain hantaviruses, e.g., TULV (Schlegel et al, 2012a). The necessity for additional studies on the presence of hantaviruses is also obvious for Africa, where only few studies documented the presence of hantaviruses and human hantavirus infections (Klempa et al, 2010), but mainly for Australia with only a single study in potential reservoirs in the 1970s (LeDuc et al, 1986;Bi et al, 2005). Although the knowledge of the geographical distribution of hantaviruses in Europe is quite good (Heyman et al, 2011), even for Europe the nonhomogeneous distribution of PUUV needs to be studied more precisely.…”

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Hantavirus Emergence in Rodents, Insectivores and Bats

Schlegel

Jacob

Krüger

et al. 2014

The Role of Animals in Emerging Viral Diseases

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Hantavirus Emergence in Rodents, Insectivores and Bats

Schlegel

Jacob

Krüger

et al. 2014

The Role of Animals in Emerging Viral Diseases

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“…Moreover, after the revolutionary breakthrough of isolating Hantaan strain virus, at least 14 viruses have been confirmed, and more than 40 species of small mammals have been identified as reservoirs or sources of hantavirus infection in the world [15]. …”

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Detection of hantavirus in bats from remaining rain forest in São Paulo, Brazil

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BackgroundThe significant biodiversity found in Brazil is a potential for the emergence of new zoonoses. Study in some places of the world suggest of the presence to hantavirus in tissues of bats. Researches of hantavirus in wildlife, out rodents, are very scarce in Brazil. Therefore we decided to investigate in tissues of different species of wild animals captured in the same region where rodents were detected positive for this virus. The present work analyzed ninety-one animals (64 rodents, 19 opossums, and 8 bats) from a region of the Atlantic forest in Biritiba Mirin City, São Paulo State, Brazil. Lungs and kidneys were used for RNA extraction.FindingsThe samples were screened for evidence of hantavirus infection by SYBR-Green-based real-time RT-PCR. Sixteen samples positive were encountered among the wild rodents, bats, and opossums. The detection of hantavirus in the lungs and kidneys of three marsupial species (Micoureus paraguayanus, Monodelphis ihering, and Didelphis aurita) as well in two species of bats (Diphylla ecaudata and Anoura caudifer) is of significance because these new hosts could represent an important virus reservoirs.ConclusionsThe analysis of nucleotide sequences of the partial S segment revealed that these genes were more related to the Araraquara virus strains. This work reinforces the importance of studying hantavirus in different animal species and performing a continued surveillance before this virus spreads in new hosts and generated serious problems in public health.

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“…In Australia, high antibody prevalence rates using HTNV-IFA screening were found in wild brown rats captured between 1981 and 1983, with 2/16 (13%) positive in the Northern Territory, 2/12 (17%) in South Australia, 3/8 (38%) in Victoria, and 8/19 (42%) in Queensland [11]. However, no typical HFRS cases were reported from Australia through 2005 despite documented HTNV-seropositive rodents [88]. HTNV-like antibody-positive human and rat sera were found in Fiji between 1981 and 1985 [39].…”

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Wild Rats, Laboratory Rats, Pet Rats: Global Seoul Hantavirus Disease Revisited

Clément¹,

LeDuc

Lloyd

et al. 2019

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Recent reports from Europe and the USA described Seoul orthohantavirus infection in pet rats and their breeders/owners, suggesting the potential emergence of a “new” public health problem. Wild and laboratory rat-induced Seoul infections have, however, been described since the early eighties, due to the omnipresence of the rodent reservoir, the brown rat Rattus norvegicus. Recent studies showed no fundamental differences between the pathogenicity and phylogeny of pet rat-induced Seoul orthohantaviruses and their formerly described wild or laboratory rat counterparts. The paucity of diagnosed Seoul virus-induced disease in the West is in striking contrast to the thousands of cases recorded since the 1980s in the Far East, particularly in China. This review of four continents (Asia, Europe, America, and Africa) puts this “emerging infection” into a historical perspective, concluding there is an urgent need for greater medical awareness of Seoul virus-induced human pathology in many parts of the world. Given the mostly milder and atypical clinical presentation, sometimes even with preserved normal kidney function, the importance of simple but repeated urine examination is stressed, since initial but transient proteinuria and microhematuria are rarely lacking.

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Are humans infected by Hantaviruses in Australia?

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

Hantavirus Emergence in Rodents, Insectivores and Bats

Hantavirus Emergence in Rodents, Insectivores and Bats

Detection of hantavirus in bats from remaining rain forest in São Paulo, Brazil

Wild Rats, Laboratory Rats, Pet Rats: Global Seoul Hantavirus Disease Revisited

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