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Adler hantavirus, a new genetic variant of Tula virus identified in Major's pine voles (Microtus majori) sampled in southern European Russia.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2015
Tkachenko Evgeniy A, Witkowski Peter T, Radosa Lukas, Dzagurova Tamara K, Okulova Nataliya M, Yunicheva Yulia V, Vasilenko Ludmila, Morozov Vyacheslav G, Malkin Gennadiy A, Krüger Detlev H, Klempa Boris
Abstract excerpt
Although at least 30 novel hantaviruses have been recently discovered in novel hosts such as shrews, moles and even bats, hantaviruses (family Bunyaviridae, genus Hantavirus) are primarily known as rodent-borne human pathogens. Here we report on identification of a novel hantavirus variant associated with a rodent host, Major's pine vole (Microtus majori). Altogether 36 hantavirus PCR-positive Major's pine voles...
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