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This is a published version of a paper published in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
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Connolly-Andersson, A., Ahlm, K., Ahlm, C., Klingström, J. (2013)
"Puumala virus infections associated with cardiovascular causes of death"
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 19(1): 126-128 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1901.111587
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Puumala Virus Infections Associated with Cardiovascular Causes of Death
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We studied the causes of death of patients in Sweden with diagnoses of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) during 1997–2009. Cardiovascular disorders were a common cause of death during acute-phase HFRS and were the cause of death for >50% of those who died during the fi rst year after HFRS.
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126 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 19, No. 1, January 2013 Author affi liations: Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden (A.-M. Con-
nolly-Andersen, K. Ahlm, C. Ahlm); Swedish Institute for Communi- cable Disease Control, Solna, Sweden (J. Klingström); and Karolin- ska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (J. Klingström)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1901.111587