| Literature DB >> 24741077 |
Hae Ji Kang1, William T Stanley2, Jacob A Esselstyn3, Se Hun Gu1, Richard Yanagihara4.
Abstract
The recent discovery of hantaviruses in shrews and bats in West Africa suggests that other genetically distinct hantaviruses exist in East Africa. Genetic and phylogenetic analyses of newfound hantaviruses, detected in archival tissues from the Geata mouse shrew (Myosorex geata) and Kilimanjaro mouse shrew ( Myosorex zinki) captured in Tanzania, expands the host diversity and geographic distribution of hantaviruses and suggests that ancestral shrews and/or bats may have served as the original mammalian hosts of primordial hantaviruses.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24741077 PMCID: PMC4054438 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00285-14
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103