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SUBMITTER: Palacios G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2888150 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Palacios Gustavo G Savji Nazir N Hui Jeffrey J Travassos da Rosa Amelia A Popov Vsevolod V Briese Thomas T Tesh Robert R Lipkin W Ian WI
The Journal of general virology 20100113 Pt 5
Merino Walk virus (MWV), a proposed novel tentative species of the family Arenaviridae, was isolated from a rodent, Myotomys unisulcatus, collected at Merino Walk, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1985. Full-length genomic sequence confirmed MWV as an arenavirus related distantly to Mobala, Mopeia and Ippy viruses, all members of the Old World arenavirus complex. We propose MWV as a tentative novel species in the Lassa-lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus complex, based on its isolation from a novel ...[more]