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Hantavirus in northern short-tailed shrew, United States.
Arai S, Song JW, Sumibcay L, Bennett SN, Nerurkar VR, Parmenter C, Cook JA, Yates TL, Yanagihara R.
Citation
Arai S, Song JW, Sumibcay L, Bennett SN, Nerurkar VR, Parmenter C, Cook JA, Yates TL, Yanagihara R. (2007) Hantavirus in northern short-tailed shrew, United States. Emerging Infectious Diseases 13(9):1420-1423.
Abstract
Phylogenetic analyses, based on partial medium- and large-segment sequences, support an ancient evolutionary origin of a genetically distinct hantavirus detected by reverse transcription-PCR in tissues of northern short-tailed shrews (Blarina brevicauda) captured in Minnesota in August 1998. To our knowledge, this is the first evidence of hantaviruses harbored by shrews in the Americas.
| Link: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18252128 |
| PMID: | 18252128 |
| PMCID: | PMC2262104 |