Prospect Hill virus

Orthohantavirus prospectense
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Negarnaviricota
Class: Bunyaviricetes
Order: Elliovirales
Family: Hantaviridae
Genus: Orthohantavirus
Species:
Orthohantavirus prospectense
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Prospect Hill hantavirus
  • Prospect Hill orthohantavirus
  • Prospect Hill virus

Prospect Hill virus 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.[3] 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.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Genus: Orthohantavirus". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
  2. ↑ "History of the taxon: Species: Orthohantavirus prospectense (2023 Release, MSL #39)". ictv.global. International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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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