A preliminary report on the detection of Hantanvirus in Viet Nam
- Author:
Ning Uyen Truong
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
virus
- MeSH:
virues;
Fever;
Hantaan virus
- From:Journal of Preventive Medicine
2002;12(5):12-15
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
In 1998-1999, 124 human sera samples (with haemorrhagic fever syndrome) which were negative for dengue antibodies and 27 rodent sera were collected for detection of hantavirus antibodies. These sera were assayed at first by the HI, MAC-ELISA with four-types of dengue virus, Japanese encephalitis and Chikungunya antigen. Among 124 sera colleced from patients with haemorrhagic fever syndrome, 4.03% were positive with Hantanvirus; and 3.37% rodent sera were positive with hantanvirus.
