Calabazo virus is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA hantavirus species of the order Bunyavirales. It is a novel New World microtine rodent-borne hantavirus discovered in Central America on the Azuero Peninsula of Panama in early 2000. Human infection with Calabazo virus results in respiratory illness similar to Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome but it is not severe or fatal and rarely requires hospitalization.[1]
Calabazo virus was identified in the cane mouse (Zygodontomys brevicauda).[2]
Transmissionedit
Calabazo virus has not been shown to transfer from person-to-person. Transmission by aerosolized rodent excreta still remains the only known way the hantaviruses are transmitted to humans. In general, droplet and/or fomite transfer has not been shown in these viruses in either the hemorrhagic or pulmonary forms.[3][4][5]
^Armien, B; Pascale, JM; Bayard, V; Munoz, C; Mosca, I; Guerrero, G; Armien, A; Quiroz, E; Castillo, Z; Zaldivar, Y; Gracia, F; Hjelle, B; Koster, F (Jun 2004). "High seroprevalence of hantavirus infection on the Azuero peninsula of Panama". Am J Trop Med Hyg. 70 (6): 682–7. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.2004.70.682. PMID 15211014.
^Richard Ostfeld. Lyme disease: the ecology of a complex system. Oxford University Press October, 2010.
^Peters, C.J. (2006). "Emerging Infections: Lessons from the Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers". Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association. 117: 189–197. PMC1500910. PMID 18528473.
^Crowley, J.; Crusberg, T. . Dept. of Biology & Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Archived from the original on 2013-10-15.
^Bayard, Vicente; Kitsutani, Paul T.; Barria, Eduardo O.; Luis, A. Ruedas; et al. (September 2004). "Outbreak of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Los Santos, Panama, 1999–2000". Emerg Infect Dis. 10 (9): 1635–1642. doi:10.3201/eid1009.040143. PMC3320309. PMID 15498167.
External linksedit
CDC's Hantavirus Technical Information Index page
Viralzone: Hantavirus
Virus Pathogen Database and Analysis Resource (ViPR): Hantaviridae
March 14, 2024
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