Deciphering the Hantavirus Host Range Combining Virology and Species Distribution Models with an Emphasis on the Yellow Pygmy Rice Rat (<i>Oligoryzomys flavescens</i>).

ABSTRACT: Hantaviruses are the causative agents of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in the Americas. In Central and South America, 28 hantavirus lineages were associated with different Sigmodontinae rodents. Of these, Lechiguanas hantavirus was initially described as a lineage associated with HPS cases in the central region of Argentina. Initial studies on the rodent hosts and viral lineages performed between 1999 and 2005 showed that HPS cases in Uruguay were distributed mostly in the southern region of the country, and that the Lechiguanas hantavirus (LECV) and the closely related Andes Central Plata hantaviruses were the viral lineages most frequently associated with HPS cases, both carried by the yellow pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys flavescens). Although these rodents are present all ac

SUBMITTER: Cabrera A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12017062 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature