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Genetic diversity and phylogeography of Seewis virus in the Eurasian common shrew in Finland and Hungary.
Virology journal - 24 Nov 2009
Kang Hae Ji, Arai Satoru, Hope Andrew G, Song Jin-Won, Cook Joseph A, Yanagihara Richard
Abstract excerpt
Recent identification of a newfound hantavirus, designated Seewis virus (SWSV), in the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus), captured in Switzerland, corroborates decades-old reports of hantaviral antigens in this shrew species from Russia. To ascertain the spatial or geographic variation of SWSV, archival liver tissues from 88 Eurasian common shrews, trapped in Finland in 1982 and in Hungary during 1997, 1999...
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