| genomic and phylogenetic characterization of merino walk virus, a novel arenavirus isolated in south africa. | merino walk virus (mwv), a proposed novel tentative species of the family arenaviridae, was isolated from a rodent, myotomys unisulcatus, collected at merino walk, eastern cape, south africa, in 1985. full-length genomic sequence confirmed mwv as an arenavirus related distantly to mobala, mopeia and ippy viruses, all members of the old world arenavirus complex. we propose mwv as a tentative novel species in the lassa-lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus complex, based on its isolation from a novel ... | 2010 | 20071489 |