title: Complete genome sequence of a novel hantavirus variant of Rio Mamoré virus, Maripa virus, from French Guiana.
abstract: We report the first complete genome sequence of Maripa virus identified in 2009 from a patient with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in French Guiana. Maripa virus corresponds to a new variant of the Rio Mamoré virus species in the Bunyaviridae family, genus Hantavirus.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Virologie, Centre National de Référence des Hantavirus, Laboratoire associé, Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana.
authors.forename: Séverine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matheus
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lavergne
authors.forename: Benoît
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: de Thoisy
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dussart
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lacoste
mesh_terms: D005616:French Guiana; D005814:Genes, Viral; D016679:Genome, Viral; D006476:Orthohantavirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny