| old world hantaviruses in rodents in new orleans, louisiana. | seoul virus, an old world hantavirus, is maintained in brown rats and causes a mild form of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (hfrs) in humans. we captured rodents in new orleans, louisiana and tested them for the presence of old world hantaviruses by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr) with sequencing, cell culture, and electron microscopy; 6 (3.4%) of 178 rodents captured--all brown rats--were positive for a seoul virus variant previously coined tchoupitoulas virus, wh ... | 2014 | 24639295 |