Article
Prevalence and geographic genetic variation of hantaviruses of New World harvest mice (Reithrodontomys): identification of a divergent genotype from a Costa Rican Reithrodontomys mexicanus.
Virology - 10 Mar 1995
Hjelle B, Anderson B, Torrez-Martinez N, Song W, Gannon W L, Yates T L
Abstract excerpt
We recently described a novel hantavirus (HMV-1) of the western harvest mouse Reithrodontomys megalotis. Screening of 181 additional specimens of Reithrodontomys from the United States and Mexico, including samples of R. mexicanus, R. sumichrasti, and R. gracilis of Costa Rica, for antibodies to...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Body Weight
- Costa Rica
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Viral
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Orthohantavirus
- Male
- Mexico
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sigmodontinae