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Nephropathia epidemica: incidence of clinical cases and antibody prevalence in an endemic area of Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

B. Niklasson ,
J. Leduc ,
K. Nyström  and
L. Nyman
B. Niklasson
Affiliation:
Department of Virology, National Bacteriological Laboratory, S-105 21 Stockholm, Sweden and National Defense Research Institute FOA-5, Box 27322, S-102 54, Stockholm, Sweden
J. Leduc
Affiliation:
Medical Division, US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD 21701, USA
K. Nyström
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Umeȧ Hospital, S-901 87 Umeȧ, Sweden
L. Nyman
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Diseases, Visby Hospital, S-621 84, Visby, Sweden
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The incidence of nephropathia epidemica (NE) was compared with the NE antibody prevalence in normal population in a highly endemic area of Sweden (Västerbotten county). The antibody prevalence rate in the oldest age groups were found to be 14 and 20 times higher than the accumulated life-risk of being hospitalized with NE for men and women respectively. Whether the infection in persons not admitted to hospital is subclinical, atypical or clinically fulminant, remains to be determined.

Type
Research Article
Information
Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 99 , Issue 2 , October 1987 , pp. 559 - 562
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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