id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-006335-j74hnoag Clement, J. A unifying hypothesis and a single name for a complex globally emerging infection: hantavirus disease 2011-11-09 .txt text/plain 2844 116 45 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, USA, propose a total of eight distinctive clinical criteria for its "Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Case Report Form" [9] : (1) fever, (2) thrombocytopaenia, )3) elevated haematocrit (Hct), (4) elevated serum creatinine, (5) left shift leukocytosis with a high percentage of "atypical lymphocytes", (6) need for supplemental oxygen, (7) need for intubation (and mechanical ventilation), and (8) chest Rx showing unexplained bilateral infiltrates or being suggestive of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The first isolation in Europe of a murine HTNV-like hantavirus (in hindsight, probably DOBV) and dated 1986, was from the urine of a 21-year-old Greek soldier, infected during manoeuvres in Porogia (northern Greece) and suffering from acute pulmonary oedema, and later from acute renal failure (ARF), prompting both life-saving ventilation and acute dialysis [17] . ./cache/cord-006335-j74hnoag.txt ./txt/cord-006335-j74hnoag.txt