Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Ukraine

• Main Authors: I.V. Nebogatkin, Yu.O. Novohatniy, I.V. Demchyshina, N.S. Andrushchenko, O.A. Hluzd, V.V. Kutseva, R.A. Rodina, N.V. Senyuk, I.M. Lozynskyi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Publishing House Zaslavsky 2020-09-01
• Series: Aktualʹnaâ Infektologiâ
• Subjects: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome; puumala; dobrava; ukraine; review
• Online Access: http://ai.zaslavsky.com.ua/article/view/212654

Over 10 years of surveillance since 2010, 28 cases of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome disease have been identified. Among the clinical manifestations of the disease were mostly moderate, all the diseases ended in the recovery of patients. The epidemic process of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome is caused mainly by the circulation in the natural centers of the hantaviruses of the serogroups Puumala and Dobrava. There was a predominantly domestic mechanism for the transmission of the pathogen, infection was mainly carried out by the airborne dust, the source of the pathogen were murine rodents. Spontaneously infecting virus 8 species rodent, 2 species shrews, gray hare and red fox.