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Species of virus
El Moro Canyon orthohantavirus
is a
single-stranded, negative sense RNA virus
of the genus
Orthohantavirus
. It is a causative agent of
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
.
[3]
Natural reservoir
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El Moro Canyon virus was isolated from
western harvest mice
(
Reithrodontomys megalotis
), in
El Moro
Canyon in southeastern
Colorado
in 1995.
[
citation needed
]
Carrizal virus and Huitzilac virus, two additional strains, were first identified in Mexican wild rodents located in Morelos and Guerrero, Mexico.
[4]
References
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Briese, Thomas; et al. (21 September 2016).
"In the genus
Hantavirus
(proposed family
Hantaviridae
, proposed order
Bunyavirales
), create 24 new species, abolish 7 species, change the demarcation criteria, and change the name of the genus to
Orthohantavirus
; likewise, rename its constituent species"
(PDF)
.
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)
. Retrieved
24 July
2020
.
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Briese, Thomas; et al. (15 June 2015).
"Implementation of non-Latinized binomial species names in the family
Bunyaviridae
"
(PDF)
.
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)
. Retrieved
8 March
2019
.
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Calisher CH
, Root JJ, Mills JN, Rowe JE, Reeder SA, Jentes ES, Wagoner K, Beaty BJ. Epizootiology of Sin Nombre and El Moro Canyon hantaviruses, southeastern Colorado, 1995?2000. J Wildl Dis. 2005 Jan;41(1):1?11.
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Saasa N, Sanchez-Hernandez C, de Lourdes Romero-Almaraz M, Guerrero-Ibarra E, Almazan-Catalan A, Yoshida H, Miyashita D, Ishizuka M, Sanada T, Seto T, Yoshii K, Ramos C, Yoshimatsu K, Arikawa J, Takashima I, Kariwa H (2012). "Ecology of hantaviruses in Mexico: genetic identification of rodent host species and spillover infection".
Virus Res
.
168
(1?2): 88?96.
doi
:
10.1016/j.virusres.2012.06.020
.
PMID
22750131
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