Seroprevalence of hantavirus infections in Switzerland in 2009: difficulties in determining prevalence in a country with low endemicity

Euro Surveill. 2013 Dec 12;18(50):20660. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2013.18.50.20660.

Authors

O Engler¹, J Klingstrom, E Aliyev, C Niederhauser, S Fontana, M Strasser, J Portmann, J Signer, S Bankoul, F Frey, C Hatz, A Stutz, A Tschaggelar, M Mutsch

Affiliation

¹ SPIEZ LABORATORY, Federal Office for Civil Protection, Spiez, Switzerland.

PMID: 24342520
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2013.18.50.20660

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Blood Donors
Endemic Diseases
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
Female
Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Direct
Hantavirus Infections / blood
Hantavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Hantavirus Infections / virology
Humans
Immunoblotting
Immunoglobulin G / blood
Logistic Models
Male
Middle Aged
Military Personnel
Neutralization Tests
Orthohantavirus / immunology*
Orthohantavirus / isolation & purification
Prevalence
Seroepidemiologic Studies
Switzerland / epidemiology
Young Adult

Substances

Immunoglobulin G