| extensive host sharing of central european tula virus. | to examine the host association of tula virus (tulv), a hantavirus present in large parts of europe, we investigated a total of 791 rodents representing 469 microtus arvalis and 322 microtus agrestis animals from northeast, northwest, and southeast germany, including geographical regions with sympatric occurrence of both vole species, for the presence of tulv infections. based on serological investigation, reverse transcriptase pcr, and subsequent sequence analysis of partial small (s) and mediu ... | 2010 | 19889769 |
| non-human primates in outdoor enclosures: risk for infection with rodent-borne hantaviruses. | different species of non-human primates have been exploited as animal disease models for human hantavirus infections. to study the potential risk of natural hantavirus infection of non-human primates, we investigated serum samples from non-human primates of three species living in outdoor enclosures of the german primate center (gpc), göttingen, located in a hantavirus endemic region of central germany. for that purpose we used serological assays based on recombinant antigens of the bank vole (m ... | 2011 | 20727685 |
| genetic evidence for tula virus in microtus arvalis and microtus agrestis populations in croatia. | to determine the threat of hantavirus infection to u.s. forces, small mammals were sampled from training areas within croatia. of the 152 samples, 20 were positive for tula virus (tul), 12 common voles (microtus arvalis) and eight field voles (microtus agrestis). sequences from m. agrestis were found in five and sequences from m. arvalis were found in six of seven sequence groups. the high percentage of the same tul sequences in m. agrestis and m. arvalis suggests the co-occurrence of this virus ... | 2002 | 12656127 |
| high genetic structuring of tula hantavirus. | tula virus (tulv) is a vole-associated hantavirus with low or no pathogenicity to humans. in the present study, 686 common voles (microtus arvalis), 249 field voles (microtus agrestis) and 30 water voles (arvicola spec.) were collected at 79 sites in germany, luxembourg and france and screened by rt-pcr and tulv-igg elisa. tulv-specific rna and/or antibodies were detected at 43 of the sites, demonstrating a geographically widespread distribution of the virus in the studied area. the tulv prevale ... | 2016 | 26831932 |