title: Genetic and serotypic characterization of Sin Nombre-like viruses in Canadian Peromyscus maniculatus mice.
abstract: In Canada, hantavirus infected deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) have been collected from British Columbia to Newfoundland. Partial sequencing of G1 and N protein encoding regions from Canadian Peromyscus maniculatus-borne hantaviruses demonstrated the existence of significant genotypic divergence among strains. Phylogenetic analysis showed that Sin Nombre (SN)-like viruses from eastern and western Canadian deer mice can be divided into at least two broad-based genogroups. Sequencing of mitochondrial DNA from infected deer mice originating from various eastern and western provinces showed that SN-like virus genogroups appeared to be associated with distinct haplotypes of mice. Sera from deer mice infected with eastern and western viral genotypes neutralized the Sin Nombre virus strain, Convict Creek 107, but not the New York 1 hantavirus. Despite the genetic heterogeneity of Canadian SN-like strains these hantaviruses do not appear to define unique hantavirus serotypes.
authors: Health Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory, Zoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens, Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health, Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. mike_drebot@hc-sc.gc.ca
authors: M A
authors: MA
authors: Drebot
authors: I
authors: I
authors: Gavrilovskaya
authors: E R
authors: ER
authors: Mackow
authors: Z
authors: Z
authors: Chen
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Lindsay
authors: A J
authors: AJ
authors: Sanchez
authors: S T
authors: ST
authors: Nichol
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Artsob
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002170:Canada; D002213:Capsid / Q000235:genetics; D036022:Capsid Proteins; D006476:Orthohantavirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009500:Neutralization Tests; D010542:Peromyscus / Q000821:virology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D014758:Viral Core Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D036022:Capsid Proteins; D014758:Viral Core Proteins; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins; C111782:nucleocapsid protein, Hantaan virus