Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Detection of possible spillover of a novel hantavirus in a Natal mastomys from Guinea.
- Journal:
- Virus genes
- Year:
- 2020
- Authors:
- Kouadio, Léonce et al.
- Affiliation:
- Robert Koch Institut · Germany
Abstract
To date, only two rodent-borne hantaviruses have been detected in sub-Saharan Africa. Here, we report the detection of a yet unknown hantavirus in a Natal mastomys (Mastomys natalensis) in Méliandou, Guinea, in 2014. The phylogenetic placement of this virus suggests that it might represent a cross-order spillover event from an unknown bat or eulipotyphlan host.
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