Huitzilac virus

Huitzilac virus
Virus classification
Group: Group V ((-)ssRNA)
Order: Unassigned
Family: Bunyaviridae
Genus: Hantavirus
Species: Huitzilac virus

Huitzilac virus (HUIV) is a single-stranded, enveloped, negative-sense RNA hantavirus species of the Bunyaviridae family. It was first isolated in Mexican wild rodents located in Morelos and Guerrero, Mexico.[1]

References

  1. Saasa N, Sánchez-Hernández C, de Lourdes Romero-Almaraz M, Guerrero-Ibarra E, Almazán-Catalán A, Yoshida H, Miyashita D, Ishizuka M, Sanada T, Seto T, Yoshii K, Ramos C, Yoshimatsu K, Arikawa J, Takashima I, Kariwa H. Ecology of hantaviruses in Mexico: genetic identification of rodent host species and spillover infection. Virus Res. 2012 Sep;168(1-2):88-96.
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