Hantavirus infection: a case report from India

Indian J Med Microbiol. 2009 Jul-Sep;27(3):267-70. doi: 10.4103/0255-0857.53215.

Abstract

The clinical presentation of hantavirus infections in India is unclear. We report here a case of hantavirus infection in a 46 year old quarry worker presenting with fever, abdominal pain, jaundice, thrombocytopenia and renal dysfunction. Seroconversion and rising anti-hantavirus IgG titers were taken as evidence of hantavirus infection. Clinicians should consider hantavirus infections in the differential diagnosis of acute febrile illness along with scrub typhus, leptospirosis and dengue.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antibodies, Viral / blood
  • Hantavirus Infections / diagnosis*
  • Hantavirus Infections / pathology
  • Hantavirus Infections / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulin G / blood
  • India
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Orthohantavirus / isolation & purification*

Substances

  • Antibodies, Viral
  • Immunoglobulin G