Klempa Boris, Fichet-Calvet Elisabeth, Lecompte Emilie, Auste Brita, Aniskin Vladimir, Meisel Helga, Denys Christiane, Koivogui Lamine, ter Meulen Jan, Krüger Detlev H
Institute of Virology, Charité Medical School, Campus Charité Mitte, Schumannstrasse 20-21, D-10117 Berlin, Germany.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 May;12(5):838-40. doi: 10.3201/eid1205.051487.
Hantaviruses are rodent-borne, emerging viruses that cause life-threatening human diseases in Eurasia and the Americas. We detected hantavirus genome sequences in an African wood mouse (Hylomyscus simus) captured in Sangassou, Guinea. Sequence and phylogenetic analyses of the genetic material demonstrate a novel hantavirus species, which we propose to name "Sangassou virus."
汉坦病毒是由啮齿动物传播的新兴病毒,在欧亚大陆和美洲可引发危及生命的人类疾病。我们在几内亚桑加苏捕获的一只非洲林鼠(Hylomyscus simus)中检测到了汉坦病毒基因组序列。对该遗传物质进行的序列和系统发育分析表明存在一种新型汉坦病毒,我们提议将其命名为“桑加苏病毒”。