| genetic characterization and phylogeny of a hantavirus from western mexico. | hantaviruses can cause two serious illnesses when transmitted from their rodent reservoirs to humans; hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps) in the new world and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in the old world. cases of hps were first recognized in the americas in small, focal outbreaks in rural populations in the southwestern usa in 1993. since that time, outbreaks as well as sporadic cases of hps have been recognized throughout the americas. remarkably, hps cases have not been reported in ... | 2008 | 17963942 |