title: Hantavirus in African wood mouse, Guinea.
abstract: Hantaviruses are rodent-borne, emerging viruses that cause life-threatening human diseases in Eurasia and the Americas. We detected hantavirus genome sequences in an African wood mouse (Hylomyscus simus) captured in Sangassou, Guinea. Sequence and phylogenetic analyses of the genetic material demonstrate a novel hantavirus species, which we propose to name "Sangassou virus."
authors.affiliation: Institute of Virology, Charité Medical School, Campus Charité Mitte, Schumannstrasse 20-21, D-10117 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Klempa
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fichet-Calvet
authors.forename: Emilie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lecompte
authors.forename: Brita
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Auste
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Aniskin
authors.forename: Helga
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Meisel
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Denys
authors.forename: Lamine
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Koivogui
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: ter Meulen
authors.forename: Detlev H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Krüger
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D004197:Disease Reservoirs / Q000662:veterinary; D016701:Guinea / Q000453:epidemiology; D006476:Orthohantavirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D018778:Hantavirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission / Q000821:virology*; D006801:Humans; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D051189:Murinae / Q000821:virology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission / Q000821:virology*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D015047:Zoonoses
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D012367:RNA, Viral