Tula Virus
Tula virus strains from Poland closely related to TULV from elsewhere in Europe
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 17th, 2004
"Tula virus (TULV), a recently identified arvicolid rodent-borne hantavirus, is harbored by the European common vole (Microtus arvalis) in Central Russia and the Czech and Slovak Republics.
"We report the isolation and characterization of this hantavirus from M. arvalis captured in Poland, a country where human disease caused by hantaviruses has not been recognized," investigators in the United States report.
"Of 34 arvicolid rodents (24 Clethrionomys glareolus, 9 M. arvalis, 1 Pitymys sp.) captured in Lodz and Tuszyn,...
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