| tigray orthohantavirus infects two related rodent species adapted to different elevations in ethiopia. | orthohantaviruses are rna viruses that some members are known to cause severe zoonotic diseases in humans. orthohantaviruses are hosted by rodents, soricomorphs (shrews and moles), and bats. only two orthohantaviruses associated with murid rodents are known in africa, sangassou orthohantavirus (sangv) in two species of african wood mice (hylomyscus), and tigray orthohantavirus (tigv) in the ethiopian white-footed rat (stenocephalemys albipes). in this article, we report evidence that, like sangv ... | 2019 | 31355714 |
| prevalence of orthohantavirus-reactive antibodies in humans and peri-domestic rodents in northern ethiopia. | in 2012, tigray orthohantavirus was discovered in ethiopia, but its seasonal infection in small mammals, and whether it poses a risk to humans was unknown. the occurrence of small mammals, rodents and shrews, in human inhabitations in northern ethiopia is affected by season and presence of stone bunds. we sampled small mammals in two seasons from low- and high-density stone bund fields adjacent to houses and community-protected semi-natural habitats in atsbi and hagere selam, where tigray orthoh ... | 2021 | 34199600 |