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