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. 2019 Jul 17;11(7):652. doi: 10.3390/v11070652

Figure 2.

Figure 2

The map does not aspire to completeness and refers only to data given in the text. Except for IR461, isolated in 1984 in Porton Down, Salisbury, UK [90], and for the Polle 18 SEOV strain, isolated in 1988 in Germany (Lower Saxony) [91], all other European SEOV isolates are of more recent dates (see text). The first (1978) western human SEOV infections, propagated by laboratory rats, were clinically described in Belgium [92,93], whereas the earliest series of 16 clinically and serologically proven SEOV-HFRS cases, after exposure to wild rats, was documented in County Down, Northern Ireland, UK, 1994 [94]. For the 1983 and 1988 probable isolated SEOV-HFRS cases in Glasgow and elsewhere in the UK, see the Supplementary Table S1 in the review by McElhinney et al. [95].