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[Identification of Puumala like viruses in China]
Gang Liu1, Chuan Li, Guang-wei Hu
1Department of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever and Ercephalitis. Institute of Viral Diseases Control and Prevention, China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, 100052 China.
Background:
To confirm if Puumala like viruses exist in China.
Methods:
RNA was extracted from lungs of bank voles captured in the Northeast China, partial S segments genome of Puumala viruses were amplified and sequenced.
Results:
926 bp cDNA of S segments of Puumala like virus was amplified and sequenced. The phylogenetic analysis revealed that the Puumala like viruses found in China were most close to that found in Far East region of Russia.
Conclusions:
Puumala like virus does exist in Northeast China, and the nucleotides sequence of the viruses have high homolog to Puumala viruses found in Russia.