Volume 23, Number 6—June 2017
Dispatch
Seoul Virus Infection in Humans, France, 2014–2016
Figure 1
![Geographic distribution of Seoul virus (SEOV) infections among human and rats, France 2016. Gray shading area indicates area of France to which Puumala virus is endemic. Open green circles indicate SEOV serologically confirmed human infections with SEOV reported by Ragnaud JM et al. (10), Le Guenno (11), and Bour et al. (6); solid blue circles indicate virologically confirmed human infections with SEOV reported in this study (patients 1, 2, and 3); solid yellow square indicates virologically con](/eid/images/16-0927-F1.jpg)
Figure 1. Geographic distribution of Seoul virus (SEOV) infections among human and rats, France 2016. Gray shading area indicates area of France to which Puumala virus is endemic. Open green circles indicate SEOV serologically confirmed human infections with SEOV reported by Ragnaud et al. (10), Le Guenno (11), and Bour et al. (6); solid blue circles indicate virologically confirmed human infections with SEOV reported in this study (patients 1, 2, and 3); solid yellow square indicates virologically confirmed human infection with SEOV reported by Macé al. (5); solid red diamonds indicate virologically confirmed SEOV infections in brown rats reported in this study; and open blue diamonds indicate virologically confirmed SEOV infections in brown rats reported by Heyman et al. (12) and Dupinay et al. (13).
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