Catacamas virus

Catacamas virus
Virus classification
Group: Group V ((-)ssRNA)
Order: Unassigned
Family: Bunyaviridae
Genus: Hantavirus
Species: Catacamas virus

Catacamas virus is a single-stranded, enveloped novel RNA virus species in the hantavirus genus of the Bunyaviridae family isolated in Oryzomys couesi near the town of Catacamas in eastern Honduras.[1]

Natural reservoir

Catacamas virus was isolated from Oryzomys couesi and none of 41 other rodents that were also trapped near the town of Catacamas. The finding represents the first time a hantavirus species has been found in Honduras. Genetically, it is most closely related to Bayou virus which is associated with the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in the southeastern United States.

Virology

Analysis of nucleotide and amino acid sequence data indicated that this novel hantaviral species is phylogenetically most closely related to Bayou virus, a hantavirus species that is principally associated with Oryzomys palustris (marsh oryzomys) in the southeastern United States.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Milazzo ML, Cajimat MN, Hanson JD, Bradley RD, Quintana M, Sherman C, Velásquez RT, Fulhorst CF. Catacamas virus, a hantaviral species naturally associated with Oryzomys couesi (Coues' oryzomys) in Honduras. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006 Nov;75(5):1003-10.
  2. ↑ Mary L. Milazzo1, Maria N.B. Cajimat1, Hannah E. Romo, Jose G. Estrada-Franco, L. Ignacio Iñiguez-Dávalos, Robert D. Bradley, and Charles F. Fulhorst. Geographic Distribution of Hantaviruses Associated with Neotomine and Sigmodontine Rodents, Mexico. Emerging Infectious Disease Journal. Volume 18, Number 4—April 2012. Research

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