TY  - JOUR
A1  - Reil, Daniela
A1  - Imholt, Christian
A1  - Drewes, Stephan
A1  - Ulrich, Rainer Günter
A1  - Eccard, Jana
A1  - Jacob, Jens
T1  - Environmental conditions in favour of a hantavirus outbreak in 2015 in Germany?
JF  - Zoonoses and Public Health
N2  - Bank voles can harbour Puumala virus (PUUV) and vole populations usually peak in years after beech mast. A beech mast occurred in 2014 and a predictive model indicates high vole abundance in 2015. This pattern is similar to the years 2009/2011 when beech mast occurred, bank voles multiplied and human PUUV infections increased a year later. Given similar environmental conditions in 2014/2015, increased risk of human PUUV infections in 2015 is likely. Risk management measures are recommended.
KW  - Beech fructification
KW  - Puumala virus
KW  - bank vole
KW  - outbreak
KW  - nephropathia epidemica
KW  - Germany
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.12217
SN  - 1863-1959
SN  - 1863-2378
VL  - 63
SP  - 83
EP  - 88
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schmidt, Sabrina
A1  - Saxenhofer, Moritz
A1  - Drewes, Stephan
A1  - Schlegel, Mathias
A1  - Wanka, Konrad M.
A1  - Frank, Raphael
A1  - Klimpel, Sven
A1  - von Blanckenhagen, Felix
A1  - Maaz, Denny
A1  - Herden, Christiane
A1  - Freise, Jona
A1  - Wolf, Ronny
A1  - Stubbe, Michael
A1  - Borkenhagen, Peter
A1  - Ansorge, Hermann
A1  - Eccard, Jana
A1  - Lang, Johannes
A1  - Jourdain, Elsa
A1  - Jacob, Jens
A1  - Marianneau, Philippe
A1  - Heckel, Gerald
A1  - Ulrich, Rainer Günter
T1  - High genetic structuring of Tula hantavirus
JF  - Archives of virology
N2  - Tula virus (TULV) is a vole-associated hantavirus with low or no pathogenicity to humans. In the present study, 686 common voles (Microtus arvalis), 249 field voles (Microtus agrestis) and 30 water voles (Arvicola spec.) were collected at 79 sites in Germany, Luxembourg and France and screened by RT-PCR and TULV-IgG ELISA. TULV-specific RNA and/or antibodies were detected at 43 of the sites, demonstrating a geographically widespread distribution of the virus in the studied area. The TULV prevalence in common voles (16.7 %) was higher than that in field voles (9.2 %) and water voles (10.0 %). Time series data at ten trapping sites showed evidence of a lasting presence of TULV RNA within common vole populations for up to 34 months, although usually at low prevalence. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated a strong genetic structuring of TULV sequences according to geography and independent of the rodent species, confirming the common vole as the preferential host, with spillover infections to co-occurring field and water voles. TULV phylogenetic clades showed a general association with evolutionary lineages in the common vole as assessed by mitochondrial DNA sequences on a large geographical scale, but with local-scale discrepancies in the contact areas.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-016-2762-6
SN  - 0304-8608
SN  - 1432-8798
VL  - 161
SP  - 1135
EP  - 1149
PB  - Springer
CY  - Wien
ER  -