Prospect Hill orthohantavirus
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Negarnaviricota
Class: Ellioviricetes
Order: Bunyavirales
Family: Hantaviridae
Genus: Orthohantavirus
Species:
Prospect Hill orthohantavirus
Member viruses[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Prospect Hill hantavirus
  • Prospect Hill virus

Prospect Hill orthohantavirus is a single-stranded, negative-sense Hantaan-like zoonotic RNA virus isolated from meadow voles and microtine and other cricetid rodents in the United States.[2] It has a widespread distribution in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Minnesota and California. The overall risk of infection in humans is low. It was first isolated from a meadow vole found in Prospect Hill, Maryland for which it is named.[3]

Transmission

Transmission to humans is believed to occur through aerosolized inhalation of mouse excreta and possibly through fomite contamination.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Briese, Thomas; Alkhovsky, Sergey; Beer, Martin; Calisher, Charlie H.; Charrel, Remi; Ebihara, Hideki; Elliott, Richard M.; Jain, Rakesh; Kuhn, Jens H.; Lambert, Amy; Maes, Piet Maes; Nunes, Marcio; Plyusnin, Alexander; Schmaljohn, Connie; Tesh, Robert B.; Yeh, Shyi-Dong (15 June 2015). "Implementation of non-Latinized binomial species names in the family Bunyaviridae" (PDF). International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 28 January 2019. Prospect Hill virus Prospect Hill hanta virus Bloodland Lake virus (BLLV) Prospect Hill virus (PHV)
  2. ↑ Lee, PW; Amyx, HL; Gajdusek, DC; Yanagihara, RT; Goldgaber, D; Gibbs, CJ Jr. (1982). "New hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome-related virus in rodents in the United States". Lancet. 2 (8312): 1405. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(82)91308-3. PMID 6129495. S2CID 54246221.
  3. ↑ Yanagihara R, Daum CA, Lee PW, Baek LJ, Amyx HL, Gajdusek DC, Gibbs CJ Jr.Serological survey of Prospect Hill virus infection in indigenous wild rodents in the USA.Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 1987;81(1):42–5.


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