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Genetic characterization of hantaviruses transmitted by the Korean field mouse (Apodemus peninsulae), Far East Russia.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2002
Lokugamage Kumari, Kariwa Hiroaki, Hayasaka Daisuke, Cui Bai Zhong, Iwasaki Takuya, Lokugamage Nandadeva, Ivanov Leonid I, Volkov Vladimir I, Demenev Vladimir A, Slonova Raisa, Kompanets Galina, Kushnaryova Tatyana, Kurata Takeshi, Maeda Kenji, Araki Koichi, Mizutani Tetsuya, Yoshimatsu Kumiko, Arikawa Jiro, Takashima Ikuo
Abstract excerpt
In an epizootiologic survey of 122 rodents captured in Vladivostok, Russia, antibodies positive for hantavirus were found in Apodemus peninsulae (4/70), A. agrarius (1/39), and Clethrionomys rufocanus (1/8). The hantavirus sequences identified in two seropositive A. peninsulae and two patients with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) from the Primorye region of Far East Russia were designated as Solovey...
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