Biology:Calabazo virus
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Virus classification 
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| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Riboviria |
| Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
| Phylum: | Negarnaviricota |
| Class: | Ellioviricetes |
| Order: | Bunyavirales |
| Family: | Hantaviridae |
| Genus: | Orthohantavirus |
| Virus: | Calabazo virus
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Calabazo virus is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA hantavirus species of the order Bunyavirales. It is a novel New World microtine rodent-borne hantavirus discovered in Central America on the Azuero Peninsula of Panama in early 2000. Human infection with Calabazo virus results in respiratory illness similar to Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome but it is not severe or fatal and rarely requires hospitalization.[1]
Reservoir
Calabazo virus was identified in the cane mouse (Zygodontomys brevicauda).[2]
Transmission
Calabazo virus has not been shown to transfer from person-to-person. Transmission by aerosolized rodent excreta still remains the only known way the hantaviruses are transmitted to humans. In general, droplet and/or fomite transfer has not been shown in these viruses in either the hemorrhagic or pulmonary forms.[3][4][5]
See also
References
- ↑ Armien, B; Pascale, JM; Bayard, V; Munoz, C; Mosca, I; Guerrero, G; Armien, A; Quiroz, E et al. (Jun 2004). "High seroprevalence of hantavirus infection on the Azuero peninsula of Panama". Am J Trop Med Hyg 70 (6): 682–7. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.2004.70.682. PMID 15211014.
- ↑ Richard Ostfeld. Lyme disease: the ecology of a complex system. Oxford University Press October, 2010.
- ↑ Peters, C.J. (2006). "Emerging Infections: Lessons from the Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers". Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association 117: 189–197. PMID 18528473.
- ↑ Crowley, J.; Crusberg, T.. "Ebola and Marburg Virus Genomic Structure, Comparative and Molecular Biology". Dept. of Biology & Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. http://www.mcb.uct.ac.za/ebola/ebolagen.html.
- ↑ Bayard, VicenteExpression error: Unrecognized word "etal". (September 2004). "Outbreak of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Los Santos, Panama, 1999–2000". Emerg Infect Dis 10 (9): 1635–1642. doi:10.3201/eid1009.040143. PMID 15498167.
External links
- CDC's Hantavirus Technical Information Index page
- Viralzone: Hantavirus
- Virus Pathogen Database and Analysis Resource (ViPR): Hantaviridae
- Occurrences and deaths in North and South America
Wikidata ☰ Q16850375 entry
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