Ocozocoautla de espinosa virus and hemorrhagic fever, Mexico.

ABSTRACT: Arenavirus RNA was isolated from Mexican deer mice (Peromyscus mexicanus) captured near the site of a 1967 epidemic of hemorrhagic fever in southern Mexico. Analyses of nucleotide and amino acid sequence data indicated that the deer mice were infected with a novel Tacaribe serocomplex virus (proposed name Ocozocoautla de Espinosa virus), which is phylogenetically closely related to Tacaribe serocomplex viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever in humans in South America.

SUBMITTER: Cajimat MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3309595 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature