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SUBMITTER: Kang HJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2789066 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kang Hae Ji HJ Arai Satoru S Hope Andrew G AG Song Jin-Won JW Cook Joseph A JA Yanagihara Richard R
Virology journal 20091124
Recent identification of a newfound hantavirus, designated Seewis virus (SWSV), in the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus), captured in Switzerland, corroborates decades-old reports of hantaviral antigens in this shrew species from Russia. To ascertain the spatial or geographic variation of SWSV, archival liver tissues from 88 Eurasian common shrews, trapped in Finland in 1982 and in Hungary during 1997, 1999 and 2000, were analyzed for hantavirus RNAs by reverse transcription-polymerase chain ...[more]