genetic identification and characterization of limestone canyon virus, a unique peromyscus-borne hantavirus. | hantaviruses, family bunyaviridae, are rodent-borne rna viruses that can cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps) in various regions of the americas. a coevolutionary relationship exists between hantaviruses and their specific rodent reservoir hosts; the phylogeny of the viruses generally matches that of the rodents. there are several peromyscus-borne hantaviruses, including sin nombre virus, the most common cause of hps in north america. this report describes the genetic detection and characte ... | 2001 | 11485402 |
geographic distribution of hantaviruses associated with neotomine and sigmodontine rodents, mexico. | to increase our knowledge of the geographic distribution of hantaviruses associated with neotomine or sigmodontine rodents in mexico, we tested 876 cricetid rodents captured in 18 mexican states (representing at least 44 species in the subfamily neotominae and 10 species in the subfamily sigmodontinae) for anti-hantavirus igg. we found antibodies against hantavirus in 35 (4.0%) rodents. nucleotide sequence data from 5 antibody-positive rodents indicated that sin nombre virus (the major cause of ... | 2012 | 22469569 |
muleshoe virus and other hantaviruses associated with neotomine or sigmodontine rodents in texas. | the broad objective of this study was to increase our knowledge of muleshoe virus and other hantaviruses associated with cricetid rodents in texas. anti-hantavirus antibody was found in 38 (3.2%) of 1171 neotomine rodents and 6 (1.8%) of 332 sigmodontine rodents from 10 texas counties; hantaviral rna was detected in 23 (71.9%) of 32 antibody-positive rodents. analyses of nucleocapsid protein gene sequences indicated muleshoe virus infection in four hispid cotton rats (sigmodon hispidus) from nor ... | 2017 | 28714801 |