Hantavirus in African Wood Mouse, Guinea

Boris Klempa
Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet
Emilie Lecompte
Brita Auste
Vladimir Aniskin
Helga Meisel
Christiane Denys
Lamine Koivogui
Jan ter Meulen
Detlev H. Krüger

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Publication date

May 2006

DOI

10.3201/eid1205.051487

Publisher

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Journal

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Abstract

Hantaviruses are rodentborne, 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.