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Hantavirus in northern short-tailed shrew, United States
Satoru Arai1, Jin-Won Song, Laarni Sumibcay
1University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, USA.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|February 7, 2008
Abstract:
Phylogenetic analyses, based on partial medium- and large-segment sequences, support an ancient evolutionary origin of a genetically distinct hantavirus detected by reverse transcription-PCR in tissues of northern short-tailed shrews (Blarina brevicauda) captured in Minnesota in August 1998. To our knowledge, this is the first evidence of hantaviruses harbored by shrews in the Americas.

