maripa hantavirus in french guiana: phylogenetic position and predicted spatial distribution of rodent hosts. | a molecular screening of wild-caught rodents was conducted in french guiana, south america to identify hosts of the hantavirus maripa described in 2008 in a hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps) case. over a 9-year period, 418 echimyids and murids were captured. viral rna was detected in two sigmodontine rodents, oligoryzomys fulvescens and zygodontomys brevicauda, trapped close to the house of a second hps case that occurred in 2009 and an o. fulvescens close to the fourth hps case identified in ... | 2014 | 24752689 |