| a lethal disease model for new world hantaviruses using immunosuppressed syrian hamsters. | hantavirus, the hemorrhagic causative agent of two clinical diseases, is found worldwide with variation in severity, incidence and mortality. the most lethal hantaviruses are found on the american continent where the most prevalent viruses like andes virus and sin nombre virus are known to cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. new world hantavirus infection of immunocompetent hamsters results in an asymptomatic infection except for andes virus and maporal virus; the only hantaviruses causing a le ... | 2017 | 29077702 |