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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
Volume 78, Issue 2, Pages 348-351Publisher
AMER SOC TROP MED & HYGIENE
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2008.78.348
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- NCRR NIH HHS [G12 RR003061, P20 RR018727, G12RR003061, P20 RR018727-05, P20RR018727] Funding Source: Medline
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A limited search for hantaviruses in lung and liver tissues of Sorex shrews (family Soricidae, subfamily Soricinae) revealed phylogenetically distinct hantaviruses in the masked shrew (Sorex cinereus) from Minnesota and in the dusky shrew (Sorex monticolus) from New Mexico and Colorado. The discovery of these shrew-borne hantaviruses, named Ash River virus and Jemez Springs virus, respectively, challenges the long-held dogma that rodents are the sole reservoir hosts and forces a re-examination of their co-evolutionary history. Also, studies now underway are aimed at clarifying the epizootiology and pathogenicity of these new members of the genus Hantavirus.
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