Hantaviruses are emerging zoonotic viruses which cause human disease. In this study sera from 642 mammals from La Réunion and Mayotte islands (Indian Ocean) were screened for the presence of hantaviruses by molecular analysis. None of the mammals from La Réunion island were positive but hantavirus genomic RNA was discovered in 29 of 160 (18%) Rattus rattus from Mayotte island. The nucleoprotein coding region was sequenced from liver and spleen of all positive individuals allowing epidemiological and intra-strain variability analyses. Phylogenetic analysis based on complete coding genomic sequences showed that this Murinae-associated hantavirus is a new variant of the Thailand virus. Further studies are needed to investigate hantaviruses in rodent hosts and human Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome (HFRS) cases.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 March 2020.
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