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| A Clinical Study of Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome Caused by Seoul Viral Infection |
| Kwan Soo Byun, Jae Bung Soe, Myung Seok Lee, Young Hoon Kim, Kyung Ho Kang, Jun Suck Kim, Seung Chull Park, Ho Wang Leee* |
| Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University Hospital
Department of Microbiology* |
Vol.18 Num.1 (p11~18)
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Seoul virus was identified in 1983. by Department of microbiology College of medicine, Korea University, and registered in American Arbovirus Catalogue in 1985. Feb.
There were previousy reports of urban type Korean hemorrhagic fever, but there were no reports of clinical features of Seoul viral infection which is serologically diagnosed.
So we evaluated the clinical findings in 29 patients with Seoul viral infection with hemorragic fever with renal syndrome who were diagnosed by hemagglutination inhibition test.
We compared clinical findings of Seoul viral infection with previously reported iclinical fiendings of Korean hemorrhage fever.
The results were as followings.
The results were as followings:
1) Objects were 29 cases of Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome which were diagnosed serologically as Seoul virus, and observation period was from 84, Jan to 84, Dec.
2) Disease was dominant in Seoul area and in fall season.
3) Major symtpoms were fever, abdominal or flank pain, vomiting, and myalgia,
4) Major physical findings were petechia, CVA tenderness, pharyngeal injection, but findings of bleeding tendency were less common than Korean hemorrhagic fever.
5) In laboratory findings, plaltelet count and WBC count abnormalities were milder than Korean hemorrhagic fever and treatments were mainly conservative and mortality was zero in observed cases.
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