Geographical range of Rio Mamoré virus (family Bunyaviridae, genus Hantavirus) in association with the small-eared pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys microtis)

Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2010 Aug;10(6):613-20. doi: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0115.

Abstract

Hantavirus HTN.007 was originally isolated from a small-eared pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys microtis) captured in northeastern Peru. The results of analyses of nucleotide and amino acid sequence data in this study indicated that HTN.007 is a strain of Rio Mamoré virus (RIOMV) which is enzootic in small-eared pygmy rice rat populations in Bolivia. As such, the results of this study extend our knowledge of the geographical range of RIOMV and support the notion that the small-eared pygmy rice rat is the principal host of RIOMV.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Capsid Proteins / genetics
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Viral
  • Hantavirus Infections / epidemiology
  • Hantavirus Infections / veterinary
  • Hantavirus Infections / virology
  • Host-Pathogen Interactions
  • Orthohantavirus / classification*
  • Orthohantavirus / physiology*
  • Peru / epidemiology
  • Phylogeny
  • Phylogeography
  • Rodent Diseases / epidemiology
  • Rodent Diseases / virology
  • Sigmodontinae / virology*
  • Viral Core Proteins / genetics

Substances

  • Capsid Proteins
  • Viral Core Proteins