Isolation and Characterization of a Hantavirus from Lemmus sibiricus : Evidence for Host Switch during Hantavirus Evolution

• Published in: Journal of Virology
• Main Authors: Vapalahti, Olli, Lundkvist, Åke, Fedorov, Vadim, Conroy, Christopher J., Hirvonen, Sirpa, Plyusnina, Angelina, Nemirov, Kirill, Fredga, Karl, Cook, Joseph A., Niemimaa, Jukka, Kaikusalo, Asko, Henttonen, Heikki, Vaheri, Antti, Plyusnin, Alexander
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 1999
• Subjects: Taymyr; Topografov; Lemmus lemmus; Lemmus sibiricus; Taymyr Peninsula; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jvi.73.7.5586-5592.1999; https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JVI.73.7.5586-5592.1999

ABSTRACT A novel hantavirus, first detected in Siberian lemmings ( Lemmus sibiricus ) collected near the Topografov River in the Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia (A. Plyusnin et al., Lancet 347:1835–1836, 1996), was isolated in Vero E6 cells and in laboratory-bred Norwegian lemmings ( Lemmus lemmus ). The...