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Hantavirus Outbreak, Germany, 2007

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  • Dr Yu is director of the Tuberculosis Center at Taipei Medical UniversityWan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

  • The few previously known human Puumala virus (PUUV) sequences from individual clinical case-patients in Germany, “Berkel” from Munsterland [7] and “Heidelberg” from a region located between Swabian Jura and Spessart Forest [8], as well as human-derived strains from a small 2004 outbreak in the Bavarian Forest [6], were included in this analysis

  • The results showed a clustering of the new viral sequences strictly according to residential areas of the patients, forming the following 4 clades: Swabian Jura (SJ), Spessart Forest (SF), Munsterland (ML), and Bavarian Forest (BF)

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Introduction

Dr Yu is director of the Tuberculosis Center at Taipei Medical UniversityWan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDRTB): recommendations for prevention and control. Address for correspondence: Ruwen Jou, Reference Laboratory of Mycobacteriology, Center for Research and Diagnostics, Centers for Disease Control, Department of Health, 161 Kun-Yang St, Nan-Kang, Taipei, 115, Taiwan, Republic of China; email: rwj@cdc.gov.tw

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