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Article: Novel hantavirus sequences in Shrew, Guinea.(Letter to the editor)(Clinical report)
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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To the Editor: Hantaviruses, family Bunyaviridae, have been known as causative agents of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Asia and Europe (1,2) and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome in the Americas (3). Hantaviruses are spread by aerosolized rodent excreta and are strongly associated with their natural hosts, rodents of the family Muridae. Based on phylogenetic analyses, hantaviruses have been divided into 3 major groups that resemble 3 subfamilies of their natural hosts (Figure, panel A).
Recently, we found the first indigenous African hantavirus, Sangassou virus (SANGV), in an African wood mouse (Hylomyscus simus) collected in Guinea (5). ...