Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
J Gen Virol. 2010 May;91(Pt 5):1315-24. doi: 10.1099/vir.0.017798-0. Epub 2010 Jan 13.
Merino Walk virus (MWV), a proposed novel tentative species of the family Arenaviridae, was isolated from a rodent, Myotomys unisulcatus, collected at Merino Walk, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1985. Full-length genomic sequence confirmed MWV as an arenavirus related distantly to Mobala, Mopeia and Ippy viruses, all members of the Old World arenavirus complex. We propose MWV as a tentative novel species in the Lassa-lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus complex, based on its isolation from a novel rodent species and its genetic and serological characteristics.
美利奴走病毒(MWV)是一种新型的沙粒病毒科暂定种,于 1985 年从南非东开普省美利奴步道采集的一种啮齿动物 Myotomys unisulcatus 中分离得到。全长基因组序列证实 MWV 是一种与莫博拉病毒、莫佩亚病毒和伊皮病毒密切相关的沙粒病毒,它们都是旧世界沙粒病毒复合物的成员。鉴于该病毒是从一种新型啮齿动物中分离出来的,且具有遗传和血清学特征,我们将其提议为拉沙-淋巴细胞性脉络丛脑膜炎病毒复合物中的一种新型暂定种。