| hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in panama: identification of novel hantaviruses and their likely reservoirs. | hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps), a severe respiratory disease with high mortality caused by rodent-borne hantaviruses, has previously been identified in the united states and canada as well as central and southern south america. in late 1999 and early 2000, an outbreak of acute illness compatible with hps was reported in los santos, panama, with the death of 3 of the 12 (25%) suspected cases. hantavirus-specific antibodies were detected in patient sera, and virus rna was detected by reverse ... | 2000 | 11062031 |
| high seroprevalence of hantavirus infection on the azuero peninsula of panama. | the first outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps) in central america was documented on the azuero peninsula of panama in late 1999 and 2000. reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction evidence implicated only choclo virus in symptomatic hps with a mortality rate of 20%, although two rodent-borne hantaviruses (choclo virus and calabazo virus) were identified in the peridomestic habitat. neighborhood serosurveys around case households found seroprevalence rates as high as 30%, the hig ... | 2004 | 15211014 |
| community ecology of small mammal populations in panamá following an outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. | in late 1999 and early 2000, an outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (hps) occurred in and around los santos, on the azuero peninsula of southwestern panamá. this hps episode, resulting in 22% case fatality, was linked to the costa rican pigmy rice rat, oligoryzomys fulvescens costaricensis, which harbored a then undescribed hantavirus, choclo virus. in addition, cherrie's cane rat, zygodontomys brevicauda cherriei, was identified as carrying a distinct hantavirus, calabazo virus with no kn ... | 2004 | 15266755 |
| modeling hantavirus reservoir species dominance in high seroprevalence areas on the azuero peninsula of panama. | habitat fragmentation commonly influences distribution of zoonotic disease reservoirs. in panama, populations of rodent hosts of hantaviruses are favored by small habitat fragments isolated by agricultural lands. we expected a similar relationship between landscape characteristics and host distribution at fine geographical scales in southern panama. the relative abundance of zygodontomys brevicauda, the primary host for "calabazo" virus, and other rodents was assessed at 24 sites within the azue ... | 2006 | 16760528 |
| genetic evidence of hantavirus infections in wild rodents from northwestern colombia. | this report builds on recent serological evidence for the presence of hantavirus in northern colombia by providing sequence-specific and phylogenetic data of hantavirus infections in wild rodents. from august 2007 to august 2008, 354 rodent specimens representing four families were collected in the northwestern antioquia region of colombia. antibodies reactive to sin nombre virus and maciel virus antigens by igg enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay were found in 15 of 109 (14%) cherries cane rats ( ... | 2011 | 21284514 |
| phylogenetic relationship of necoclí virus to other south american hantaviruses (bunyaviridae: hantavirus). | the results of a previous study suggested that cherrie's cane rat (zygodontomys cherriei) is the principal host of necoclí virus (family bunyaviridae, genus hantavirus) in colombia. bayesian analyses of complete nucleocapsid protein gene sequences and complete glycoprotein precursor gene sequences in this study confirmed that necoclí virus is phylogenetically closely related to maporal virus, which is principally associated with the delicate pygmy rice rat (oligoryzomys delicatus) in western ven ... | 2015 | 26186516 |