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Genetic diversity and distribution of Peromyscus-borne hantaviruses in North America.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Monroe M C, Morzunov S P, Johnson A M, Bowen M D, Artsob H, Yates T, Peters C J, Rollin P E, Ksiazek T G, Nichol S T
Abstract excerpt
The 1993 outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in the southwestern United States was associated with Sin Nombre virus, a rodent-borne hantavirus; The virus' primary reservoir is the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus). Hantavirus-infected rodents were identified in various regions of North America. An extensive nucleotide sequence database of an 139 bp fragment amplified from virus M genomic segments...
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