| detection and characterization of a novel hepacivirus in long-tailed ground squirrels (spermophilus undulatus) in china. | rodent populations are known to be reservoirs of viruses with the potential to infect humans. however, a large number of such viruses remain undiscovered. in this study, we investigated the shedding of unknown viruses in long-tailed ground squirrel (spermophilus undulatus) feces by high-throughput sequencing. a novel and highly divergent virus related to members of the genus hepacivirus was identified in ground squirrel liver. this virus, tentatively named rhv-gs2015, was found to have a genome ... | 2019 | 31243554 |