| recent discoveries of new hantaviruses widen their range and question their origins. | hantaviruses belong to the bunyaviridae family. while usually hosted by wild mammals, they are potentially pathogenic for humans, and several serologically distinct groups associated with different syndromes have been identified. yet, investigations have mostly been conducted where human infections by hantaviruses constitute a real and well-identified public health problem, i.e., the holarctic and neotropical areas. some hantaviruses have also been described from a suncus murinus in india and a ... | 2008 | 19120180 |
| molecular evolution of azagny virus, a newfound hantavirus harbored by the west african pygmy shrew (crocidura obscurior) in cote d'ivoire. | abstract: background: tanganya virus (tgnv), the only shrew-associated hantavirus reported to date from sub-saharan africa, is harbored by the therese's shrew (crocidura theresae), and is phylogenetically distinct from thottapalayam virus (tpmv) in the asian house shrew (suncus murinus) and imjin virus (mjnv) in the ussuri white-toothed shrew (crocidura lasiura). the existence of myriad soricid-borne hantaviruses in eurasia and north america would predict the presence of additional hantaviruses ... | 2011 | 21798050 |
| complete genome sequence and molecular phylogeny of a newfound hantavirus harbored by the doucet's musk shrew (crocidura douceti) in guinea. | elucidation of the molecular phylogeny of shrew-borne hantaviruses in sub-saharan africa has been hampered by the lack of full-length viral genomes. in this report, we present the complete genome analysis of a newfound hantavirus, designated bowé virus, detected in ethanol-fixed intercostal muscle of a doucet's musk shrew (crocidura douceti), captured in southwestern guinea in february 2012. full-length amino acid sequence comparison of the s-, m- and l-segment gene products revealed that bowé v ... | 2013 | 23994121 |