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We report on the first Puumala hantavirus nucleotide sequence (strain Opina-916) amplified from a bank vole trapped in Slovakia, central Europe. Phylogenetic analysis of the S-segment sequence grouped the virus within the western/central European sublineage of Puumala virus. In the neighborhood of the rodent trapping site two cases of human infection by the Puumala virus were verified.
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Leitmeyer, K., Sibold, C., Meisel, H. et al. First Molecular Evidence for Puumala Hantavirus in Slovakia. Virus Genes 23, 165–169 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011840104037
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