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Boris Klempa1, Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet, Emilie Lecompte
1Institute of Virology, Charité Medical School, Campus Charité Mitte, Schumannstrasse 20-21, D-10117 Berlin, Germany.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|May 18, 2006
Abstract:
Hantaviruses are rodent-borne, emerging viruses that cause life-threatening human diseases in Eurasia and the Americas. We detected hantavirus genome sequences in an African wood mouse (Hylomyscus simus) captured in Sangassou, Guinea. Sequence and phylogenetic analyses of the genetic material demonstrate a novel hantavirus species, which we propose to name "Sangassou virus."
