Preserve a voucher specimen! The critical need for integrating natural history collections in infectious disease studies

CW Thompson, KL Phelps, MW Allard, JA Cook… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Despite being nearly 10 months into the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic,
the definitive animal host for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

Hantavirus infection: a global zoonotic challenge

H Jiang, X Zheng, L Wang, H Du, P Wang, X Bai - Virologica Sinica, 2017 - Springer
Hantaviruses are comprised of tri-segmented negative sense single-stranded RNA, and are
members of the Bunyaviridae family. Hantaviruses are distributed worldwide and are …

Virome analysis of Amblyomma americanum, Dermacentor variabilis, and Ixodes scapularis ticks reveals novel highly divergent vertebrate and invertebrate viruses

R Tokarz, SH Williams, S Sameroff… - Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A wide range of bacterial pathogens have been identified in ticks, yet the
diversity of viruses in ticks is largely unexplored. In the United States, Amblyomma …

Global diversity and distribution of hantaviruses and their hosts

MT Milholland, I Castro-Arellano, G Suzán… - EcoHealth, 2018 - Springer
Rodents represent 42% of the world's mammalian biodiversity encompassing 2,277 species
populating every continent (except Antarctica) and are reservoir hosts for a wide diversity of …

Hantaviruses and cardiopulmonary syndrome in South America

LTM Figueiredo, WM de Souza, M Ferrés, DA Enria - Virus research, 2014 - Elsevier
Hantavirus (Bunyaviridae) cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) is an emerging health
problem in South America due to urban growth and to the expansion of agriculture and cattle …

Hantavirus reservoirs: current status with an emphasis on data from Brazil

R Carvalho de Oliveira, A Guterres, J Fernandes… - Viruses, 2014 - mdpi.com
Since the recognition of hantavirus as the agent responsible for haemorrhagic fever in
Eurasia in the 1970s and, 20 years later, the descovery of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome …

The evolution and emergence of hantaviruses

EC Holmes, YZ Zhang - Current opinion in virology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Biodiversity surveys have revealed additional mammalian hosts of
hantaviruses.•Rodents, bats, and Soricomorpha (moles and shrews) are the most common …

Influence of climatic factors on human hantavirus infections in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review

KO Douglas, K Payne, G Sabino-Santos Jr, J Agard - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: With the current climate change crisis and its influence on infectious disease
transmission there is an increased desire to understand its impact on infectious diseases …

Reservoirs and vectors of emerging viruses

JS Mackenzie, M Jeggo - Current opinion in virology, 2013 - Elsevier
Wildlife, especially mammals and birds, are hosts to an enormous number of viruses, most of
which we have absolutely no knowledge about even though we know these viruses circulate …

Development of RT-qPCR and semi-nested RT-PCR assays for molecular diagnosis of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome

BTD Nunes, MHR de Mendonça… - PLoS neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome is an, often fatal, emerging zoonotic disease in the
Americas caused by hantaviruses (family: Hantaviridae). In Brazil, hantavirus routine …