hantaviruses

In a separate study, published in the journal Lancet, an Austrian researcher concludes that domestic cats may also be spreading several rodent-borne viruses, in eluding hantaviruses, notorious in Europe and Asia for causing hemorrhagic fevers and kidney failure.

Twentieth-Century Plagues 2008

Rodents throughout the world are afflicted with hantaviruses; areas of the Western part of the United States particularly prairie dog communities are reservoirs of plague, as are many other world regions.

The Population of the United States Douglas L. Anderton 1997

Here's an example: hantaviruses are a nasty strain of pathogens that can cause serious disease in human beings, with a fatality rate close to 40%.

TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

This paper describes the molecular characterization of hantaviruses from Rattus norvegicus and Rattus tanezumi, the predominant rodents caught in urban Singapore.

BioMed Central - Latest articles Patrik Johansson 2010

The majority of these viruses are transmitted by insects, except for hantaviruses, which spread through the excreta of mice and rats.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

Wild mice, for example, may be infected with hantaviruses, which can disrupt kidney function.

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

Virus evolution and genetic diversity of hantaviruses and their rodent hosts.

BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

Both infection prevalence of hantaviruses in wild reservoir

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

Both infection prevalence of hantaviruses in wild reservoir

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

We compared apathogenic (Tula and Topografov) and pathogenic (Puumala and Seoul) hantaviruses in their ability to regulate cellular signaling pathways and observed a direct virus-mediated down-regulation of external signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 (ERK1 / 2) survival pathway activity, which was dramatically enhanced by TNF-alpha.

BioMed Central - Latest articles 2008