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Hantavirus
Scientists at University of Hawaii describe research in hantavirus
January 6th, 2009
"Recent molecular evidence of genetically distinct hantaviruses in shrews, captured in widely separated geographical regions, corroborates decades-old reports of hantavirus antigens in shrew tissues. Apart from challenging the conventional view that rodents are the principal reservoir hosts, the recently identified soricid-borne hantaviruses raise the possibility that other soricomorphs, notably talpids, similarly harbor hantaviruses," scientists writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America report. "In analyzing RNA extracts from lung tissues of the Japanese shrew mole (Urotrichus talpoides), captured in...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-01-06)
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