Tula hantavirus infection in a hospitalised patient, France, June 2015

Jean-Marc Reynes (1) , Damien Carli (1) , Nourredine Boukezia (2) , Monique Debruyne (3) , Samir Herti (2)

1 CNR-UBIVE - Centre National de Référence des Hantavirus - Biologie des Infections Virales Emergentes
2 Centre hospitalier de Coulommiers
3 Laboratoire CERBA

We report an infection with Tula virus in June 2015, leading to hospitalisation, in a patient living approximately 60 km east of Paris with no previous remarkable medical history. Clinical symptoms were limited to a fever syndrome with severe headache. The main laboratory findings included thrombocytopenia and elevated transaminase levels. Based on S (small) gene sequence analysis, the strain affecting the patient was closely related to strains detected in Central Europe, especially to a south-east German strain.

Keywords: Human; France; Tula orthohantavirus

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Virology; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Santé publique et épidémiologie; Life Sciences [q-bio]; Human health and pathology; Infectious diseases

Jean-Marc Reynes, Damien Carli, Nourredine Boukezia, Monique Debruyne, Samir Herti. Tula hantavirus infection in a hospitalised patient, France, June 2015. Eurosurveillance, 2015, 20 (50), ⟨10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.50.30095⟩. ⟨pasteur-01835395⟩