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Serum samples from three patients with Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) were inoculated intraperitoneally to guinea pigs. After a very long incubation period (58-273 days) the animals developed an experimental disease characterized by apathy, tremor, convulsions and a fatal outcome. The disease
Central nervous system (CNS) - related symptoms occur in haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). To study the CNS and ophthalmic involvement in nephropathia epidemica (NE), the European type of HFRS, we included 26 patients in a prospective study. Most common CNS-related symptoms were
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With 2017 notified cases the largest hantavirus epidemic in Germany has occurred in 2010. We report on two interesting cases illustrating the wide range of the individual clinical course and the diagnostic problems in hantavirus disease. The first patient was a seriously ill 44-year-old man