Ocozocoautla de Espinosa Virus and Hemorrhagic Fever, Mexico

Arenavirus RNA was isolated from Mexican deer mice (Peromyscus mexicanus) captured near the site of a 1967 epidemic of hemorrhagic fever in southern Mexico. Analyses of nucleotide and amino acid sequence data indicated that the deer mice were infected with a novel Tacaribe serocomplex virus (propose...

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Main Authors: Maria N.B. Cajimat, Mary Louise Milazzo, Robert D. Bradley, Charles F. Fulhorst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012-03-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/3/11-1602_article