• Joerg Latus, Matthias Schwab, Evelina Tacconelli, Friedrich-Michael Pieper, Daniel Wegener, Juergen Dippon, Simon Müller, David Zakim, Stephan Segerer, Daniel Kitterer, Martin Priwitzer, Barbara Mezger, Birgit Walter-Frank, Angela Corea, Albrecht Wiedenmann, Stefan Brockmann, Christoph Pöhlmann, M Dominik Alscher, and Niko Braun.
• Emerging Infect. Dis. 2015 Jan 1; 21 (1): 76-83.

AbstractHuman infection with Puumala virus (PUUV), the most common hantavirus in Central Europe, causes nephropathia epidemica (NE), a disease characterized by acute kidney injury and thrombocytopenia. To determine the clinical phenotype of hantavirus-infected patients and their long-term outcome and humoral immunity to PUUV, we conducted a cross-sectional prospective survey of 456 patients in Germany with clinically and serologically confirmed hantavirus-associated NE during 2001-2012. Prominent clinical findings during acute NE were fever and back/limb pain, and 88% of the patients had acute kidney injury. At follow-up (7-35 mo), all patients had detectable hantavirus-specific IgG; 8.5% had persistent IgM; 25% had hematuria; 23% had hypertension (new diagnosis for 67%); and 7% had proteinuria. NE-associated hypertension and proteinuria do not appear to have long-term consequences, but NE-associated hematuria may. All patients in this study had hantavirus-specific IgG up to years after the infection.

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