Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, Tick- and Mosquito-Borne Viruses

Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Editor’s comments....Pages 1-3
Geographical distribution of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantaviruses....Pages 5-18
Diagnostic potential of a baculovirus-expressed nucleocapsid protein for hantaviruses....Pages 19-28
Rapid serodiagnosis of hantavirus infections using high density particle agglutination....Pages 29-33
Field trial of an inactivated vaccine against hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in humans....Pages 35-47
Reservoirs and modes of spread of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, a zoonotic nontransmissible human disease....Pages 49-56
Pathogenesis of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome virus infection and mode of horizontal transmission of hantavirus in bank voles....Pages 57-62
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Bulgaria: isolation of hantaviruses and epidemiologic considerations....Pages 63-67
Association of chronic renal disease, hypertension, and infection with a rat-borne hantavirus....Pages 69-80
Prevalence of antibody to hantaviruses in humans and rodents in Italy. Provisional evidence of Hantaan-like virus infections in humans and Seoul-like virus infections in rodents....Pages 81-86
Evidence of the presence of two hantaviruses in Slovenia, Yugoslavia....Pages 87-94
Panhypopituitarism in the acute stage of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome: a case report....Pages 95-100
Stabilized Ribavirin diphosphate analogs inhibit the vesicular stomatitis virus (Indiana) in vitro transcription reaction....Pages 101-108
Early events in infection with arenaviruses....Pages 109-117
A study of the NS3 nonstructural protein of tick-borne encephalitis virus using monoclonal antibodies against the virus....Pages 119-124
The envelope protein E of tick-borne encephalitis virus and other flaviviruses: structure, functions and evolutionary relationships....Pages 125-135
Antigenicity of flaviviruses....Pages 137-152
Laboratory diagnosis of tick-borne encephalitis....Pages 153-159
New perspective vaccines from tick-borne encephalitis virus propagated in green monkey kidney cell cultures....Pages 161-168
Characterization of Dugbe virus by biochemical and immunochemical procedures using monoclonal antibodies....Pages 169-179
Studies of the pathogenesis of Dugbe virus in normal and in immunosuppressed mice....Pages 181-195
Dugbe virus susceptibility to neutralization by monoclonal antibodies as a marker of virulence in mice....Pages 197-205
Dugbe virus in ticks: histological localization studies using light and electron microscopy....Pages 207-218
Biological and molecular characteristics of orbiviruses and orthomyxoviruses isolated from ticks....Pages 219-225
Characterization of tick salivary gland factor(s) that enhance Thogoto virus transmission....Pages 227-234
Serological evidence of the distribution of California serogroup viruses in the U.S.S.R.....Pages 235-241
Signs and symptoms of infections caused by California serogroup viruses in humans in the U.S.S.R.....Pages 243-247
Arbovirus activity in Canada....Pages 249-258
Surveillance for arboviruses in the Soviet Union: relationships between ecologic zones and virus distribution....Pages 259-266
Natural foci of arboviruses in far northern latitudes of Eurasia....Pages 267-275
Seroepidemiological survey for antibodies to arboviruses in Greece....Pages 277-285
Sandfly fever in Central Asia and Afghanistan....Pages 287-293
Isolation of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus from patients and from autopsy specimens....Pages 295-301
Ecology of ticks as potential vectors of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in Senegal: epidemiological implications....Pages 303-322
Epidemiology of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Senegal: temporal and spatial patterns....Pages 323-340
Abstracts....Pages 341-347