title: Detection of Imjin Virus and Seoul Virus in Crocidurine Shrews in Shandong Province, China.
abstract: Recently, hantaviruses have been discovered in insectivores in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. Imjin virus (MJNV) was first isolated from the lung tissues of Ussuri white-toothed shrew (Crocidura lasiura) from South Korea in 2009. We aim to detect the species and prevalence of insectivore- and rodent-borne hantaviruses in shrews and rodents.
  
  
  
  Shrews and rodents were captured in Jiaonan County of Shandong Province, China, in 2014. RT-PCR was used to amplify viral RNA of Hantavirus species, including insectivore-borne Imjin virus (MJNV), rodent-borne Hantaan virus (HTNV), and Seoul virus (SEOV) from shrews and rodents.
  
  
  
  We found that MJNV infected 10.7% (19/178) of Crocidura shrews, but it infected none of rodents (0/475); we also found that 2 of 178 (1.1%) Crocidura shrews were PCR positive to SEOV. This study indicated that the major animal hosts of Imjin virus are shrews, and rodent-borne SEOV can infect shrews.
authors.affiliation: 1 School of Public Health, Shandong University , Jinan, China .
authors.forename: Xi-Feng
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: 1 School of Public Health, Shandong University , Jinan, China .
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: 2 Huangdao District Center for Disease Control and Prevention , Qingdao City, China .
authors.forename: Zhen-Tang
authors.initials: ZT
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: 1 School of Public Health, Shandong University , Jinan, China .
authors.forename: Miao-Miao
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: 2 Huangdao District Center for Disease Control and Prevention , Qingdao City, China .
authors.forename: Zai-Feng
authors.initials: ZF
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.affiliation: 1 School of Public Health, Shandong University , Jinan, China .
authors.forename: Hong-Ling
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.affiliation: 2 Huangdao District Center for Disease Control and Prevention , Qingdao City, China .
authors.forename: Dong-Qiang
authors.initials: DQ
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: 1 School of Public Health, Shandong University , Jinan, China .
authors.forename: Yu-Ting
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: 1 School of Public Health, Shandong University , Jinan, China .
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: 1 School of Public Health, Shandong University , Jinan, China .
authors.forename: Chuan-Min
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: 1 School of Public Health, Shandong University , Jinan, China .
authors.forename: Li-Mei
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: 1 School of Public Health, Shandong University , Jinan, China .
authors.forename: Jian-Wei
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: 1 School of Public Health, Shandong University , Jinan, China .
authors.forename: Wen-Qian
authors.initials: WQ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: 3 School of Medicine, Fudan University , Shanghai, China .
authors.forename: Hao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: 1 School of Public Health, Shandong University , Jinan, China .|4 School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University , Wuhan, China .|5 Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch , Galveston, Texas.
authors.forename: Xue-Jie
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D005260:Female; D006476:Orthohantavirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008297:Male; D010802:Phylogeny; D012377:Rodentia / Q000821:virology; D012788:Shrews / Q000821:virology*; D015047:Zoonoses
keywords: Hantaan virus; Hantavirus; Imjin virus; Seoul virus; rodents; shrews