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Nephropathia epidemica (puumala virus infection) in Austrian children.

Birgit Acham-Roschitz, Stephan W Aberle, Notburga Pirker, Wilhelm Kaulfersch, Michael Boehm, Siegfrid Roedl, Werner Zenz, Ekkehard Ring, and Christoph J Mache

Pediatr Infect Dis J 29(9):874-6 (2010) PMID 20400926

From 2000 to 2007, 19 Austrian children (aged 6-18 years) had serologically verified nephropathia epidemica. Common clinical features were abdominal/flank/back pain, fever, nausea, vomiting, headache, and transient visual disturbances. Acute renal failure was present in 18 (95%) patients. All patients recovered completely. Childhood nephropathia epidemica in Austria takes a similar course to those reported for Northern European Puumala virus strains.

DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e3181dfbbe5
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