title: Ocozocoautla de espinosa virus and hemorrhagic fever, Mexico.
abstract: Arenavirus RNA was isolated from Mexican deer mice (Peromyscus mexicanus) captured near the site of a 1967 epidemic of hemorrhagic fever in southern Mexico. Analyses of nucleotide and amino acid sequence data indicated that the deer mice were infected with a novel Tacaribe serocomplex virus (proposed name Ocozocoautla de Espinosa virus), which is phylogenetically closely related to Tacaribe serocomplex viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever in humans in South America.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-0609, USA.
authors.forename: Maria N B
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Cajimat
authors.forename: Mary Louise
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Milazzo
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Bradley
authors.forename: Charles F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Fulhorst
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006477:Arenaviruses, New World / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006478:Hemorrhagic Fever, American / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D010542:Peromyscus / Q000821:virology; D010802:Phylogeny; D017385:Sequence Homology
chemical_list: D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins