ocozocoautla de espinosa virus and hemorrhagic fever, mexico. | arenavirus rna was isolated from mexican deer mice (peromyscus mexicanus) captured near the site of a 1967 epidemic of hemorrhagic fever in southern mexico. analyses of nucleotide and amino acid sequence data indicated that the deer mice were infected with a novel tacaribe serocomplex virus (proposed name ocozocoautla de espinosa virus), which is phylogenetically closely related to tacaribe serocomplex viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever in humans in south america. | 2012 | 22377271 |