Hantavirus in northern short-tailed shrew, United States.
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.
Arai
Satoru
S
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, USA.
Song
Jin-Won
JW
Sumibcay
Laarni
L
Bennett
Shannon N
SN
Nerurkar
Vivek R
VR
Parmenter
Cheryl
C
Cook
Joseph A
JA
Yates
Terry L
TL
Yanagihara
Richard
R
D000818:Animals; D006476:Orthohantavirus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012788:Shrews / Q000821:virology*; D014481:United States