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Species of virus
Limestone Canyon virus
(
LSC
) is a
single-stranded, negative-sense RNA
zoonotic
Orthohantavirus
that is genetically similar to
Sin Nombre orthohantavirus
which causes
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
(HPS) in humans. HPS causing hantaviruses are found only in the
United States
and
South America
.
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LSC has not been shown to cause HPS in humans.
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The virus was isolated from the
brush mouse
(
Peromyscus boylii
).
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Phylogenetic analysis of M genome segment showed LSC to be very distinct from other
Peromyscus
-borne viruses. Other
Peromyscus
-associated hantaviruses include
Sin Nombre orthohantavirus
(SNV),
New York orthohantavirus
(NYV), and
Monongahela virus
(MGLV).
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