Mortality Rate Patterns for Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome Caused by Puumala Virus

To investigate nephropathia epidemica in Sweden during 1997–2007, we determined case-fatality rates for 5,282 patients with this disease. Overall, 0.4% died of acute nephropathia epidemica <3 months after diagnosis. Case-fatality rates increased with age. Only women showed an increased case-fatal...

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Autores principales: Hjertqvist, Marika, Klein, Sabra L., Ahlm, Clas, Klingström, Jonas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3294390/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20875284
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1610.100242
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Sumario:To investigate nephropathia epidemica in Sweden during 1997–2007, we determined case-fatality rates for 5,282 patients with this disease. Overall, 0.4% died of acute nephropathia epidemica <3 months after diagnosis. Case-fatality rates increased with age. Only women showed an increased case-fatality rate during the first year after diagnosis.

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