Ocozocoautla de espinosa virus and hemorrhagic fever, Mexico

Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Mar;18(3):401-5. doi: 10.3201/eid1803.111602.

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

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

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Arenaviruses, New World / classification
  • Arenaviruses, New World / genetics
  • Arenaviruses, New World / isolation & purification*
  • Hemorrhagic Fever, American / diagnosis
  • Hemorrhagic Fever, American / epidemiology*
  • Hemorrhagic Fever, American / virology
  • Humans
  • Mexico / epidemiology
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Nucleocapsid Proteins / genetics
  • Peromyscus / virology
  • Phylogeny
  • Sequence Homology

Substances

  • Nucleocapsid Proteins

Associated data

  • GENBANK/JN897398
  • GENBANK/JN897399