Thottapalayam virus is genetically distant to the rodent-borne hantaviruses, consistent with its isolation from the Asian house shrew (<it>Suncus murinus</it>)

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Thottapalayam (TPM) virus belongs to the genus <it>Hantavirus</it>, family <it>Bunyaviridae</it>. The genomes of hantaviruses consist of three negative-stranded RNA segments (S, M and L) encoding the virus nucleocapsid (N), glycoprotein (G...

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Main Authors: Vincent Martin J, Yadav Pragya D, Nichol Stuart T
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-08-01
Series:Virology Journal
Online Access:http://www.virologyj.com/content/4/1/80