Volume 12, Number 6—June 2006
Dispatch
Hantaviruses in Serbia and Montenegro
Table 1
ELISA and PCR results from 31 serum samples tested in this study*
Patient | Sex | Year of birth | ELISA (indexes) |
PCR |
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Collection date (day of illness) | IgM HTNV | IgG HTNV | IgM PUUV | IgG PUUV | MS | MM-G1 | PPT | |||
GD | M | 1979 | Oct 17 | 2.5 | 1.8 | Cutoff | Cutoff | Neg | ||
CS | M | 1972 | Oct 17 | 2.9 | Neg | Cutoff | Neg | |||
PM | M | 1958 | Oct 9 | Neg | 1.8 | Neg | 1.4 | |||
DZ | F | 1951 | Sep 20 | 3.2 | 2.0 | Cutoff | Neg | Neg | ||
RD | M | 1968 | Aug 19 | 3.3 | 2.3 | Cutoff | Cutoff | Neg | ||
DR | M | 1958 | Aug 9 | Cutoff | Neg | Cutoff | Cutoff | |||
SS | F | 1973 | Aug 1 | 2.9 | 2.1 | Neg | Neg | |||
DO | M | 1956 | Jul 26 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Neg | Neg | |
RM | M | UNK | Jul 12 | 2.65 | 2.13 | Cutoff | Cutoff | |||
VM | M | 1962 | Jun 14 | 2.7 | Cutoff | 1.61 | Cutoff | Neg | Neg | |
MM | M | 1936 | Jun 10 | 2.7 | 2.4 | Neg | Neg | |||
GM | M | 1937 | May 13 | 3.2 | 2.8 | Cutoff | Cutoff | Neg | ||
TV | F | 1964 | Apr 23 (day 11) | 1.6 | 3.3 | Neg | 1.7 | Neg | ||
Apr 24 (day 12) | 1.7 | 3.5 | Neg | 2.0 | DOBV | Neg | ||||
May 8 (day 26) | Neg | 4.7 | Neg | 1.9 | ||||||
IR | F | 1981 | May 17(day 8) | 6.9 | 2.0 | 1.6 | Cutoff | Neg | Neg | |
May 24 (day 15) | 6.6 | 2.9 | 1.5 | Cutoff | ||||||
CJ | M | 1957 | May 24 (day 11) | 5.0 | 2.5 | 1.5 | Neg | Neg | Neg | |
May 27 (day 14) | 4.2 | 2.7 | 1.8 | Neg | ||||||
Oct 23 (day 5) | Neg | 4.2 | Neg | Neg | ||||||
TD | M | 1958 | Jun 11 (day 12) | 4.0 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.2 | Neg | Neg | |
Jun 13 (day 14) | 5.0 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 2.2 | ||||||
Jun 28 (day 29) | 4.4 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 2.2 | ||||||
GA | M | 2002 | Jun 19 | Neg | 1.8 | Neg | Cutoff | Neg | Neg | |
SM | M | 1961 | Jul 3 (day 7) | 3.1 | 1.1 | Neg | Neg | Neg | Neg | |
Jul 7 (day 11) | 4.6 | 2.4 | Neg | Neg | ||||||
PV | F | 1972 | Jun 20 (day 5) | 4.3 | 2.0 | Neg | Neg | DOBV | Neg | |
MD | ? | 1981 | Sep 18 (day 8) | 4.3 | 1.2 | Neg | Neg | DOBV | DOBV | |
Sep 30 (day 20) | 4.1 | 5.0 | Neg | Neg | Neg |
*ELISA, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; HTNV, Hantaan virus; PUUV, Puumala virus; DOBV, Dobrava/Belgrade virus; MS, primers for partial N coding regions of hantaviruses associated with rodents of the Murinae subfamily; MM-G1, primers for partial G1 coding regions of hantaviruses associated with rodehttp://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eidnts of the Murinae subfamily; PPT, primers for partial N coding regions of hantaviruses associated with rodents of the Arvicolinae subfamily; Unk, unknown; neg, negative; DOBV, a positive PCR band yielding Dobrava/Belgrade virus nucleotide sequences.