Hantavirus infection: A case report from India

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 take...

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Published inIndian journal of medical microbiology Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 267 - 270
Main Authors Chandy, S, Boorugu, H, Chrispal, A, Thomas, K, Abraham, P, Sridharan, G
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published India Medknow Publications on behalf of Indian Association of Medical Microbiology 01.07.2009
Elsevier B.V
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Antibodies, Viral - blood
Colleges & universities
Hantavirus
Hantavirus - isolation & purification
Hantavirus Infections - diagnosis
Hantavirus Infections - pathology
Hantavirus Infections - physiopathology
Humans
Immunoglobulin G - blood
India
Infections
Leptospira
Male
Medical diagnosis
Middle Aged
renal disease
Rodents
India
renal disease
Hantavirus
India
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:0255-0857
1998-3646
DOI:10.4103/0255-0857.53215