| Literature DB >> 18304671 |
Maria N B Cajimat1, Mary Louise Milazzo, Jeff N Borchert, Ken D Abbott, Robert D Bradley, Charles F Fulhorst.
Abstract
The results of analyses of glycoprotein precursor and nucleocapsid protein gene sequences indicated that an arenavirus isolated from a Mexican woodrat (Neotoma mexicana) captured in Arizona is a strain of a novel species (proposed name Skinner Tank virus) and that arenaviruses isolated from Mexican woodrats captured in Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah are strains of Whitewater Arroyo virus or species phylogenetically closely related to Whitewater Arroyo virus. Pairwise comparisons of glycoprotein precursor sequences and nucleocapsid protein sequences revealed a high level of divergence among the viruses isolated from the Mexican woodrats captured in Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah and the Whitewater Arroyo virus prototype strain AV 9310135, which originally was isolated from a white-throated woodrat (Neotoma albigula) captured in New Mexico. Conceptually, the viruses from Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah and strain AV 9310135 could be grouped together in a species complex in the family Arenaviridae, genus Arenavirus.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID： 18304671 PMCID： PMC2374749 DOI： 10.1016/j.virusres.2008.01.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Virus Res ISSN： 0168-1702 Impact factor: 3.303