First report of an imported case of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in South Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Moolla, Naazneen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Adler, D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Blumberg, Lucille Hellen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Glass, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Grobbelaar, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Le Roux, C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz | |
| dc.contributor.author | Weyer, Jacqueline | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-29T13:47:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-29T13:47:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is caused by hantavirus infection. Hantaviruses are not endemic to South Africa, and we report the first detection of an imported case of HFRS in the country. The case involved a traveller from Croatia who presented to a Johannesburg hospital with an acute febrile illness with renal dysfunction. The patient reported visiting rurally located horse stables in Croatia before falling ill, and that a worker in the stables with similar illness was diagnosed with HFRS. Given the exposure history and clinical findings of the case, a clinical diagnosis of HFRS was made and confirmed by laboratory testing. | en_US |
| dc.description.department | Medical Virology | en_US |
| dc.description.librarian | dm2022 | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The NICD, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.samj.org.za | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Moolla, N., Adler, D., Blumberg, L., Glass, A., Grobbelaar, A., Le Roux, C., Paweska, J. & Weyer, J. First report of an imported case of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in South Africa. South African Medical Journal 2022 Aug 2; vol. 112, no. 8, pp. 519-525. doi: 10.7196/SAMJ.2022.v112i8. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2078-5135 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0256-9574 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.7196/SAMJ.2022.v112i8 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/88546 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | South African Medical Association | en_US |
| dc.rights | This open-access article is distributed under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC 4.0. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Renal syndrome | en_US |
| dc.subject | South Africa (SA) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) | en_US |
| dc.title | First report of an imported case of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in South Africa | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |