• A Bour, J-M Reynes, X Plaisancie, and J-F Dufour.
• Service de médecine interne et post-urgence, centre hospitalier Fleyriat, 900, route de Paris, CS 90401, 01012 Bourg-en-Bresse cedex, France. Electronic address: drbour@hotmail.fr.
• Rev Med Interne. 2016 Jul 1; 37 (7): 493496493-6.

IntroductionRodents are hantavirus hosts. In Europe, hantaviruses are responsible for human infections resulting in hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. Thousands of Puumala virus infections are reported annually in Europe, whereas human Seoul virus infections are rarely detected.Case ReportWe report the case of a 38-year-old patient who presented initially with flu-like symptoms and transitory blurred vision. He developed thrombocytopenia, acute renal failure, and elevated aminotransferases levels during the disease course, but the outcome was favorable with a full recovery. Afterwards, the hantavirus serology results were indicative of Seoul virus infection.ConclusionThis report serves to remind physicians to consider diagnosing hantavirus infection when observing the association of fever, acute renal failure and thrombocytopenia. Transitory blurred vision is a specific element to indicate this diagnosis.Copyright © 2015 Société Nationale Française de Médecine Interne (SNFMI). Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.

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