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Volume 23, Number 1—January 2017
Dispatch

Host-Associated Absence of Human Puumala Virus Infections in Northern and Eastern Germany

Stephan Drewes, Hanan Sheikh Ali, Moritz Saxenhofer, Ulrike M. Rosenfeld, Florian Binder, Fabian Cuypers, Mathias Schlegel1, Susanne Röhrs2, Gerald Heckel, and Rainer G. UlrichComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany (S. Drewes, H. Sheikh Ali, U.M. Rosenfeld, F. Binder, F. Cuypers, M. Schlegel, S. Röhrs, R.G. Ulrich); Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan (H. Sheikh Ali); University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland (M. Saxenhofer, G. Heckel); Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland (M. Saxenhofer, G. Heckel)

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Figure 1

Geographic distribution of Puumala virus (PUUV)–positive and PUUV-negative bank voles in Germany (A) and assignment of bank voles to the evolutionary lineages Western, Eastern, and Carpathian (B). The coloration of the map in panel A was generated on the basis of the human PUUV incidence per district (2). PUUV detection in previous studies was extracted from (3–7). The identification of the bank vole evolutionary lineages shown in panel B was determined by using partial cytochrome b gene sequenc

Figure 1. Geographic distribution of Puumala virus (PUUV)–positive and PUUV-negative bank voles in Germany (A) and assignment of bank voles to the evolutionary lineages Western, Eastern, and Carpathian (B). The coloration of the map in panel A was generated on the basis of the human PUUV incidence per district (2). PUUV detection in previous studies was extracted from (3–7). The identification of the bank vole evolutionary lineages shown in panel B was determined by using partial cytochrome b gene sequences (see Figure 2). The red dotted line illustrates the hypothetical current edge of the range of PUUV-positive bank voles.

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1Current affiliation: Seramun Diagnostica GmbH, Heidesee, Germany.

2Current affiliation: Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany.

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