Suzán G, Ceballos G, Mills J, Ksiazek T G, Yates T
Museum of Southwestern Biology, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, USA.
J Wildl Dis. 2001 Apr;37(2):391-3. doi: 10.7589/0090-3558-37.2.391.
Antibodies to hantaviruses in two species of sigmodontine rodents (Peromyscus maniculatus and Reithrodontomys sumichrasti) collected in central Mexico are reported. Peromyscus maniculatus, a common species throughout much of Mexico, is the reservoir of Sin Nombre virus (SNV), the etiologic agent of the great majority of cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in North America. Although the identity of the virus detected in P. maniculatus in Mexico could not be determined by these serologic results, our findings suggest that SNV may occur throughout the range of P. maniculatus in North America. If true, the failure to identify HPS in Mexico is not due to the absence of pathogenic hantaviruses in Mexico.
据报道，在墨西哥中部采集的两种稻鼠属啮齿动物（白足鼠和苏氏稻鼠）体内发现了汉坦病毒抗体。白足鼠是墨西哥大部分地区的常见物种，是辛诺柏病毒（SNV）的宿主，而SNV是北美绝大多数汉坦病毒肺综合征（HPS）病例的病原体。尽管这些血清学结果无法确定在墨西哥白足鼠体内检测到的病毒种类，但我们的研究结果表明，SNV可能在北美白足鼠的整个分布范围内存在。如果情况属实，那么在墨西哥未发现HPS并非是因为墨西哥没有致病性汉坦病毒。
