Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome, Tick- and Mosquito-Borne Viruses

S.A. For their counsel, helpful suggestions, and gracious support in a miscellany of areas, I offer my thanks. To the authors, who tolerated my editorial style, met unrealistic deadlines, and generally were cooperative and cheerful through it all, lowe everything. As newly appointed Special Issues Editor, along with Dr. H. D. Klenk, it is my responsibility to see that manuscripts are submitted according to the "Instructions to Authors" issued by the journal. That is quite a different situation from the usual, in which submitted manuscripts are refereed anonymously and the Editor acts in accord with the referee's recommendations. In this situation, there is much more work involved in trying to make all manuscripts match the style and standards of the journal-rejection of a manuscript is a last resort, rarely done in fact. As Editor, and as an arbovirologist interested in the systematics of my field, I must comment on the viral nomenclature and taxonomic usage contained in certain of the papers in this volume. At the symposium held in Dubrovnik, I presented a paper "Classification and taxonomy of arboviruses: a useful occupation or the sign of obsessive-compulsive behavior?". I noted that the purpose of precision in nomenclature and universality in taxonomy is unambiguous communication. I explained my position on definition of the arbovirological terms serogroup, complex, virus, subtype, and Front Matter....Pages I-VII Editor’s comments....Pages 1-3 Geographical distribution of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantaviruses....Pages 5-18 Diagnostic potential of a baculovirus-expressed nucleocapsid protein for hantaviruses....Pages 19-28 Rapid serodiagnosis of hantavirus infections using high density particle agglutination....Pages 29-33 Field trial of an inactivated vaccine against hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in humans....Pages 35-47 Reservoirs and modes of spread of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, a zoonotic nontransmissible human disease....Pages 49-56 Pathogenesis of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome virus infection and mode of horizontal transmission of hantavirus in bank voles....Pages 57-62 Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Bulgaria: isolation of hantaviruses and epidemiologic considerations....Pages 63-67 Association of chronic renal disease, hypertension, and infection with a rat-borne hantavirus....Pages 69-80 Prevalence of antibody to hantaviruses in humans and rodents in Italy. Provisional evidence of Hantaan-like virus infections in humans and Seoul-like virus infections in rodents....Pages 81-86 Evidence of the presence of two hantaviruses in Slovenia, Yugoslavia....Pages 87-94 Panhypopituitarism in the acute stage of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome: a case report....Pages 95-100 Stabilized Ribavirin diphosphate analogs inhibit the vesicular stomatitis virus (Indiana) in vitro transcription reaction....Pages 101-108 Early events in infection with arenaviruses....Pages 109-117 A study of the NS3 nonstructural protein of tick-borne encephalitis virus using monoclonal antibodies against the virus....Pages 119-124 The envelope protein E of tick-borne encephalitis virus and other flaviviruses: structure, functions and evolutionary relationships....Pages 125-135 Antigenicity of flaviviruses....Pages 137-152 Laboratory diagnosis of tick-borne encephalitis....Pages 153-159 New perspective vaccines from tick-borne encephalitis virus propagated in green monkey kidney cell cultures....Pages 161-168 Characterization of Dugbe virus by biochemical and immunochemical procedures using monoclonal antibodies....Pages 169-179 Studies of the pathogenesis of Dugbe virus in normal and in immunosuppressed mice....Pages 181-195 Dugbe virus susceptibility to neutralization by monoclonal antibodies as a marker of virulence in mice....Pages 197-205 Dugbe virus in ticks: histological localization studies using light and electron microscopy....Pages 207-218 Biological and molecular characteristics of orbiviruses and orthomyxoviruses isolated from ticks....Pages 219-225 Characterization of tick salivary gland factor(s) that enhance Thogoto virus transmission....Pages 227-234 Serological evidence of the distribution of California serogroup viruses in the U.S.S.R.....Pages 235-241 Signs and symptoms of infections caused by California serogroup viruses in humans in the U.S.S.R.....Pages 243-247 Arbovirus activity in Canada....Pages 249-258 Surveillance for arboviruses in the Soviet Union: relationships between ecologic zones and virus distribution....Pages 259-266 Natural foci of arboviruses in far northern latitudes of Eurasia....Pages 267-275 Seroepidemiological survey for antibodies to arboviruses in Greece....Pages 277-285 Sandfly fever in Central Asia and Afghanistan....Pages 287-293 Isolation of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus from patients and from autopsy specimens....Pages 295-301 Ecology of ticks as potential vectors of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in Senegal: epidemiological implications....Pages 303-322 Epidemiology of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Senegal: temporal and spatial patterns....Pages 323-340 Abstracts....Pages 341-347 A number of economically important diseases are caused by potyviruses, the largest group of plant viruses. Main topics dealt with in detail are: serological relationships, nucleic acid sequence information, biological properties, and specific problems with several virus subgroups or pairs of viruses. A collection of essays intended to provide readers with an integrated view of the geographical distribution, properties and effects, recognition and prevention of infection regarding these viruses. Included are papers describing newly recognized viruses and techniques for diagnosis and detection.