TY  - JOUR
A1  - Reil, Daniela
A1  - Imholt, Christian
A1  - Rosenfeld, Ulrike M.
A1  - Drewes, Stephan
A1  - Fischer, S.
A1  - Heuser, Emil
A1  - Petraityte-Burneikiene, Rasa
A1  - Ulrich, R. G.
A1  - Jacob, J.
T1  - Validation of the Puumala virus rapid field test for bank voles in Germany
JF  - Epidemiology and infection
N2  - Puumala virus (PUUV) causes many human infections in large parts of Europe and can lead to mild to moderate disease. The bank vole (Myodes glareolus) is the only reservoir of PUUV in Central Europe. A commercial PUUV rapid field test for rodents was validated for bank-vole blood samples collected in two PUUV-endemic regions in Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Wurttemberg). A comparison of the results of the rapid field test and standard ELISAs indicated a test efficacy of 93-95%, largely independent of the origin of the antigens used in the ELISA. In ELISAs, reactivity for the German PUUV strain was higher compared to the Swedish strain but not compared to the Finnish strain, which was used for the rapid field test. In conclusion, the use of the rapid field test can facilitate short-term estimation of PUUV seroprevalence in bank-vole populations in Germany and can aid in assessing human PUUV infection risk.
KW  - Antibody detection
KW  - early warning
KW  - Europe
KW  - hantavirus
KW  - Myodes glareolus
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268816002557
SN  - 0950-2688
SN  - 1469-4409
VL  - 145
IS  - 3
SP  - 434
EP  - 439
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ritte, Gerhard
A1  - Rosenfeld, J.
A1  - Rohrig, K.
A1  - Raschke, Klaus
T1  - Rates of sugar uptake by guard cell protoplasts of Pisum sativum L. related to solute requirement for stomatal opening
Y1  - 1999
ER  -