Hantavirus in northern short-tailed shrew, United States.

ABSTRACT: Phylogenetic analyses, based on partial medium- and large-segment sequences, support an ancient evolutionary origin of a genetically distinct hantavirus detected by reverse transcription-PCR in tissues of northern short-tailed shrews (Blarina brevicauda) captured in Minnesota in August 1998. To our knowledge, this is the first evidence of hantaviruses harbored by shrews in the Americas.

SUBMITTER: Arai S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2262104 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature