dc.creator | Gryseels, Sophie | |
dc.creator | Rieger, Toni | |
dc.creator | Oestereich, Lisa | |
dc.creator | Cuypers, Bart | |
dc.creator | Borremans, Benny | |
dc.creator | Makundi, Rhodes | |
dc.creator | Leirs, Herwig | |
dc.creator | Günther, Stephan | |
dc.creator | Goüy de Bellocq, Joëlle | |
dc.date | 2016-12-06T06:27:37Z | |
dc.date | 2016-12-06T06:27:37Z | |
dc.date | 2015 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-25T08:52:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-25T08:52:26Z | |
dc.identifier | https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/1085 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/92551 | |
dc.description | Despite itsnearpan-Africanrange,theNatalmultimammatemouse, Mastomysnatalensis, carriesthe human pathogenLassavirusonlyinWestAfrica,whiletheseeminglynon-pathogenicarenaviruses Mopeia, Morogoro,andLunahavebeendetectedinthissemi-commensalrodentinMozambique/ Zimbabwe,TanzaniaandZambia,respectively.Here,wedescribeanovelarenavirusin M. natalensis from Gairo districtofcentralTanzania,forwhichweproposethename “Gairo virus”. Surprisingly,thevirusis not closelyrelatedwithMorogorovirusthatinfects M. natalensis only 90kmsouthofGairo,butclusters phylogeneticallywithMobala-likevirusesthatinfectnon-M. natalensis host speciesinCentralAfrican RepublicandEthiopia.Despitetheevolutionarydistance,Gairovirussharesbasicecologicalfeatures with theother M. natalensis-borne virusesLassaandMorogoro.Ourdatashowthat M. natalensis, carrying distantlyrelatedviruseseveninthesamegeographicalarea,isapotentreservoirhostfora varietyofarenaviruses. | |
dc.format | application/pdf | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.publisher | ElsevierInc | |
dc.subject | Arenavirus | |
dc.subject | Mastomys natalensis | |
dc.subject | Virology | |
dc.subject | Phylogeny | |
dc.subject | Ecology | |
dc.subject | Zoonotic infections | |
dc.subject | Hemorrhagic fevers | |
dc.subject | Tanzania | |
dc.title | "Gairovirus,anovelarena virusof the widespread Mastomys natalensis: genetically divergent,but ecologically similar to Lassa and Morogoro viruses | |
dc.type | Article |
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