title: Expanded host diversity and geographic distribution of hantaviruses in sub-Saharan Africa.
abstract: The recent discovery of hantaviruses in shrews and bats in West Africa suggests that other genetically distinct hantaviruses exist in East Africa. Genetic and phylogenetic analyses of newfound hantaviruses, detected in archival tissues from the Geata mouse shrew (Myosorex geata) and Kilimanjaro mouse shrew ( Myosorex zinki) captured in Tanzania, expands the host diversity and geographic distribution of hantaviruses and suggests that ancestral shrews and/or bats may have served as the original mammalian hosts of primordial hantaviruses.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Pediatrics and Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
authors.forename: Hae Ji
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Kang
authors.affiliation: Science and Education, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: William T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Stanley
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
authors.forename: Jacob A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Esselstyn
authors.affiliation: Departments of Pediatrics and Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
authors.forename: Se Hun
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.affiliation: Departments of Pediatrics and Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology, and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA ryanagih@hawaii.edu.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yanagihara
mesh_terms: D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D000818:Animals; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000821:virology*; D005843:Geography; D006476:Orthohantavirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018778:Hantavirus Infections / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D051379:Mice; D010802:Phylogeny; D012788:Shrews / Q000821:virology*
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