Nova virus

Nova virus
Virus classification
Group: Group V ((−)ssRNA)
Order: Bunyavirales
Family: Hantaviridae
Genus: Orthohantavirus
Species: Nova virus

Nova virus (NVAV) is a single-stranded, negative-sense, enveloped RNA orthohantavirus. It is phylogenetically related to other European and Asian hantaviruses that cause hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. No known human cases of infection have been reported.[1]

Natural reservoir

Nova virus was first isolated in European moles (Talpa europaea) found in Hungary and France. Previously it was believed that rodents were the principal reservoir hosts, but field trapping has discovered hantavirus species in insectivoire bats, shrews, and moles (Soricidae and Talpidae).[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gu SH, Dormion J, Hugot JP, Yanagihara R (2014). "High prevalence of Nova hantavirus infection in the European mole (Talpa europaea) in France". Epidemiol. Infect. 142 (6): 1167–71. doi:10.1017/S0950268813002197. PMC 4082828. PMID 24044372.
  2. ↑ Kang HJ, Bennett SN, Sumibcay L, Arai S, Hope AG, Mocz G, Song JW, Cook JA, Yanagihara R (2009). "Evolutionary insights from a genetically divergent hantavirus harbored by the European common mole (Talpa europaea)". PLoS ONE. 4 (7): e6149. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006149. PMC 2702001. PMID 19582155.


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