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- Title
Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in 4 US Soldiers, South Korea, 2005.
- Authors
Jin-Won Song; Sung-Sil Moon; Se Hun Gu; Ki-Joon Song; Luck Ju Baek; Heung Chul Kim; Todd Kijek; O'Guinn, Monica L.; Lee, John S.; Turell, Michael J.; Terry A. Klein
- Abstract
Four US soldiers acquired hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome while training near the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, in 2005. Hantaan virus sequences were amplifi ed by reverse transcription--PCR from patient serum samples and from lung tissues of striped fi eld mice (Apodemus agrarius) captured at training sites. Epidemiologic investigations specifi ed the ecology of possible sites of patient infection.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; HEMORRHAGIC fever; KIDNEY diseases; AMERICAN military personnel; REVERSE transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; EPIDEMIOLOGY
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 11, p1833
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1511.090076