Abstract
Arenavirus RNA was isolated from Mexican deer mice (Peromyscus mexicanus) captured near the site of a 1967 epidemic of hemorrhagic fever in southern Mexico. Analyses of nucleotide and amino acid sequence data indicated that the deer mice were infected with a novel Tacaribe serocomplex virus (proposed name Ocozocoautla de Espinosa virus), which is phylogenetically closely related to Tacaribe serocomplex viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever in humans in South America.
Publication types
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Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
MeSH terms
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Animals
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Arenaviruses, New World / classification
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Arenaviruses, New World / genetics
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Arenaviruses, New World / isolation & purification*
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Hemorrhagic Fever, American / diagnosis
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Hemorrhagic Fever, American / epidemiology*
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Hemorrhagic Fever, American / virology
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Humans
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Mexico / epidemiology
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Nucleocapsid Proteins / genetics
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Peromyscus / virology
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Phylogeny
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Sequence Homology
Associated data
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GENBANK/JN897398
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GENBANK/JN897399