A global perspective on hantavirus ecology, epidemiology, and disease

CB Jonsson, LTM Figueiredo… - Clinical microbiology …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Hantaviruses are enzootic viruses that maintain persistent infections in their rodent hosts
without apparent disease symptoms. The spillover of these viruses to humans can lead to …

Global diversity and distribution of hantaviruses and their hosts

MT Milholland, I Castro-Arellano, G Suzán… - EcoHealth, 2018 - Springer
Rodents represent 42% of the world's mammalian biodiversity encompassing 2,277 species
populating every continent (except Antarctica) and are reservoir hosts for a wide diversity of …

Phylogeny and origins of hantaviruses harbored by bats, insectivores, and rodents

WP Guo, XD Lin, W Wang, JH Tian, ML Cong… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Hantaviruses are among the most important zoonotic pathogens of humans and the subject
of heightened global attention. Despite the importance of hantaviruses for public health …

Hantaviridae: Current Classification and Future Perspectives

L Laenen, V Vergote, CH Calisher, B Klempa… - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
In recent years, negative-sense RNA virus classification and taxon nomenclature have
undergone considerable transformation. In 2016, the new order Bunyavirales was …

Discovery and Genetic Characterization of Novel Paramyxoviruses Related to the Genus Henipavirus in Crocidura Species in the Republic of Korea

SH Lee, K Kim, J Kim, JS No, K Park, S Budhathoki… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Paramyxoviruses, negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses, pose a critical threat to
human public health. Currently, 78 species, 17 genera, and 4 subfamilies of …

Hantavirus reservoirs: current status with an emphasis on data from Brazil

R Carvalho de Oliveira, A Guterres, J Fernandes… - Viruses, 2014 - mdpi.com
Since the recognition of hantavirus as the agent responsible for haemorrhagic fever in
Eurasia in the 1970s and, 20 years later, the descovery of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome …

Hantaviruses in the Americas and their role as emerging pathogens

B Hjelle, F Torres-Pérez - Viruses, 2010 - mdpi.com
The continued emergence and re-emergence of pathogens represent an ongoing,
sometimes major, threat to populations. Hantaviruses (family Bunyaviridae) and their …

Hantaviruses: rediscovery and new beginnings

R Yanagihara, SH Gu, S Arai, HJ Kang, JW Song - Virus research, 2014 - Elsevier
Virus and host gene phylogenies, indicating that antigenically distinct hantaviruses (family
Bunyaviridae, genus Hantavirus) segregate into clades, which parallel the molecular …

Divergent lineage of a novel hantavirus in the banana pipistrelle (Neoromicia nanus) in Côte d'Ivoire

L Sumibcay, B Kadjo, SH Gu, HJ Kang, BK Lim… - Virology journal, 2012 - Springer
Recently identified hantaviruses harbored by shrews and moles (order Soricomorpha)
suggest that other mammals having shared ancestry may serve as reservoirs. To investigate …

Ecology of hantavirus in a changing world

MD Dearing, L Dizney - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Hantavirus is a genus of virus represented by 45 different species and is hosted by small
mammals, predominantly rats and mice. Roughly, half of all hantaviruses cause diseases in …