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Hemorrhagic Fever
Study results from University of Ljubljana in the area of hemorrhagic fever published
April 29th, 2008
"To asses the role of virus load in the pathogenesis of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, the serum Dobrava virus RNA load in 46 patients was measured with a novel quantitative real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reacion assay and compared to the disease severity," researchers in Ljubljana, Slovenia report. "The level of viremia, detected in 26 patients, ranged from 10(2)-10(8) copies/mL of serum. The patients with severe disease had, on average, higher viral RNA loads than patients with a milder course of disease (6.15 vs. 4.67log10 copies/mL; P = .053)," wrote A. Saksida and colleagues, University of Ljubljana. The researchers...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-04-29)
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