Tula Virus Infection Associated with Fever and Exanthema After a Wild Rodent Bite
- 19 February 2002
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 21 (4) , 304-306
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-002-0705-5
Abstract
Reported here is the first case of human acute infection with Tula virus, which occurred in a 12-year-old boy in Switzerland. This hantavirus had been considered apathogenic to humans, and in Switzerland only TULV-genome sequences have been demonstrated in wild rodents to date. In this case, paronychia, fever and exanthema occurred after the patient was bitten by a wild rodent, indicating an unusual route of hantavirus transmission. Thus, Tula virus infection should be taken into account in patients with appropriate clinical symptoms and contact with rodents.Keywords
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