TY - JOUR AU - Arai, Satoru AU - Song, Jin-Won AU - Sumibcay, Laarni AU - Bennett, Shannon N. AU - Nerurkar, Vivek R. AU - Parmenter, Cheryl AU - Cook, Joseph A. AU - Yates, Terry L. AU - Yanagihara, Richard T1 - Hantavirus in Northern Short-tailed Shrew, United States T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 9 SP - 1420 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Phylogenetic analyses, based on partial medium- and large-segment sequences, support an ancient evolutionary origin of a genetically distinct hantavirus detected by reverse transcription–PCR in tissues of northern short-tailed shrews (Blarina brevicauda) captured in Minnesota in August 1998. To our knowledge, this is the first evidence of hantaviruses harbored by shrews in the Americas. KW - Hantavirus KW - shrews KW - Blarina brevicauda KW - phylogeny KW - dispatch KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1309.070484 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/9/07-0484_article ER - End of Reference