Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS)

References

Citations

1. National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2007). Case information: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome case count and descriptive statistics. All About Hantaviruses. Available online: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hps/noframes/caseinfo.htm.

2. Yates TL, et al., (2002). The ecology and evolutionary history of an emergent disease: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Bioscience, 52(11): 989–999.

Other Works Consulted

• Committee on Infectious Diseases, American Academy of Pediatrics (2006). Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. In LK Pickering et al., eds., Red Book: 2006 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, 27th ed., pp. 318–321. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics.

• Khan AS, Ksiazek TG (2000). Diseases caused by hantaviruses. In GT Strickland, ed., Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases, 8th ed., pp. 288–293. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

• Mackenzie J, Plant A (2004). Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. In DL Heyman, ed., Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 18th ed., pp. 243–245. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association.

• National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2005). Technical information for health care providers, public health professionals, educators, and others. All About Hantavirus. Available online: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hanta/hps/noframes/phys/printtechsection.htm.

• Peters CJ (2005). California encephalitis, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, and Bunyavirid hemorrhagic fevers. In GL Mandell et al., eds, Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 6th ed., pp. 2086–2090. Philadelphia: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone.

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