 Hantavirus
"Hantavirus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of the family BUNYAVIRIDAE causing HANTAVIRUS INFECTIONS, first identified during the Korean war. Infection is found primarily in rodents and humans. Transmission does not appear to involve arthropods. HANTAAN VIRUS is the type species.
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D006476
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B04.820.087.440 B04.909.777.147.440
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| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hantavirus" by people in Profiles.
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Kang HJ, Kosoy MY, Shrestha SK, Shrestha MP, Pavlin JA, Gibbons RV, Yanagihara R. Short report: Genetic diversity of Thottapalayam virus, a Hantavirus harbored by the Asian house shrew (Suncus murinus) in Nepal. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Sep; 85(3):540-5.
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Li G, Wang N, Guzman H, Sbrana E, Yoshikawa T, Tseng CT, Tesh RB, Xiao SY. Dhori virus (Orthomyxoviridae: Thogotovirus) infection of mice produces a disease and cytokine response pattern similar to that of highly virulent influenza A (H5N1) virus infection in humans. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2008 Apr; 78(4):675-80.
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Wilson ML, Tesh RB, Fish D, Gerber MA, Magnarelli LA, Feder HM, Shapiro ED. Evidence of hantavirus infection in rodents and human beings from Connecticut and New York, USA. Lancet. 1995 Mar 18; 345(8951):738.
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