Hantavirus in Greece

Overview

Greece is in the Europe hantavirus context. The country has documented circulation of PUUV, DOBV (Puumala virus, Dobrava-Belgrade virus).

Dobrava-Belgrade virus is the predominant hantavirus in Greece, with HFRS cases reported since 1984 and a case-fatality rate near 9%; cases concentrate in the north and north-west. Dobrava virus was first isolated in Greece by Papa et al. in 2001 from an Apodemus flavicollis trapped in the north-eastern border region.

Sources for the above: Papa et al., J Clin Microbiol 2001 (Dobrava virus isolation, A. flavicollis, Greece) · Papa & Antoniadis, Eur J Epidemiol 2001 (hantavirus infections in Greece — update)

Reservoir species

• Apodemus flavicollis
• Myodes glareolus

Endemic strains

Signal trend (last 30 days)