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| Year : 2018 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 237-239 |
Bilateral massive pneumonia as an unusual manifestation of Puumala hantavirus infection
HT Gozdas1, D Menemenlioğlu2, Y Coşgun2, G Çelebi3
1 Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Kastamonu State Hospital, Kastamonu, Turkey
2 Microbiology Reference Laboratories Department, National Arboviruses and Viral Zoonoses Unit, Public Health Institution of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey
3 Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Bülent Ecevit University, Faculty of Medicine, Zonguldak, Turkey
Correspondence Address:
Dr. H T Gozdas
Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Kastamonu State Hospital, Kastamonu
Turkey
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DOI: 10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_283_17
Renal involvement due to European Puumala virus (PUUV) is frequent but pulmonary involvement is quite rare. We present here, a 24-year-old male with atypical clinical presentation of acute PUUV infection with gross pulmonary and minimal renal involvement. Severe pulmonary manifestations of PUUV infection, in this case, highlights that hantavirus infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis of atypical pneumonia.
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