Rodent-Borne Orthohantaviruses in Vietnam, Madagascar and Japan

Hantaviruses are harbored by multiple small mammal species in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. To ascertain the geographic distribution and virus-host relationships of rodent-borne hantaviruses in Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Madagascar, RNA later ™-preserved lung tissues of 981 rodents repre...

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Published in:Viruses
Main Authors: Fuka Kikuchi, Kae Senoo, Satoru Arai, Kimiyuki Tsuchiya, Nguyễn Trường Sơn, Masaharu Motokawa, Marie Claudine Ranorosoa, Saw Bawm, Kyaw San Lin, Hitoshi Suzuki, Akira Unno, Keisuke Nakata, Masashi Harada, Keiko Tanaka-Taya, Shigeru Morikawa, Motoi Suzuki, Tetsuya Mizutani, Richard Yanagihara
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021
Subjects:
Hantaan orthohantavirus
Thailand orthohantavirus
Puumala orthohantavirus
spill-over infection
rodents
Microbiology
QR1-502
Rattus rattus
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3390/v13071343
https://doaj.org/article/d3f77e841e3945adb39b302a56f31726
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Summary:Hantaviruses are harbored by multiple small mammal species in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. To ascertain the geographic distribution and virus-host relationships of rodent-borne hantaviruses in Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Madagascar, RNA later ™-preserved lung tissues of 981 rodents representing 40 species, collected in 2011–2017, were analyzed for hantavirus RNA by RT-PCR. Our data showed Hantaan orthohantavirus Da Bie Shan strain in the Chinese white-bellied rat ( Niviventer confucianus ) in Vietnam, Thailand; orthohantavirus Anjo strain in the black rat ( Rattus rattus ) in Madagascar; and Puumala orthohantavirus Hokkaido strain in the grey-sided vole ( Myodes rufocanus ) in Japan. The Hokkaido strain of Puumala virus was also detected in the large Japanese field mouse ( Apodemus speciosus ) and small Japanese field mouse ( Apodemus argenteus ), with evidence of host-switching as determined by co-phylogeny mapping.

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