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Abstract
Hantaviruses are rodentborne, emerging viruses that cause life-threatening human diseases in Eurasia and the Americas. We detected hantavirus genome sequences in an African wood mouse (Hylomyscus simus) captured in Sangassou, Guinea. Sequence and phylogenetic analyses of the genetic material demonstrate a novel hantavirus species, which we propose to name "Sangassou virus."
Highlights
Hantaviruses are rodentborne, emerging viruses that cause life-threatening human diseases in Eurasia and the Americas
We report detection and initial genetic characterization of the first indigenous African hantavirus detected in an African wood mouse (Hylomyscus simus) in Sangassou, Guinea
Genome segments were recovered from an arboreal African rodent. They clearly represent genetic material of a novel hantavirus species because their amino acid sequence is significantly (≈15%) divergent from those of other hantaviruses, they form a distinct clade in phylogenetic trees, and they were detected in a rodent species previously not recognized as a natural host of hantaviruses
Summary
Hantaviruses are rodentborne, emerging viruses that cause life-threatening human diseases in Eurasia and the Americas. Hantaviruses, family Bunyaviridae, are emerging viruses that cause 2 life-threatening human zoonoses: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS, known as hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome). Hantaan virus (HTNV), Seoul virus (SEOV), and Dobrava virus (DOBV), which cause HFRS in Asia and Europe, are examples of Murinaeassociated viruses.
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