Caño Delgadito orthohantavirus

Caño Delgadito orthohantavirus (CADV) is a hantavirus present in Venezuela. Its natural reservoir is Alston's cotton rat. Transmission among cotton rats appears to be horizontal. While human disease caused by CADV has not yet been identified, it has been isolated from oropharyngeal swabs and urine of infected cotton rats, indicating that it may be infectious to humans in the same manner as other hantaviruses, via inhalation of aerosolized droplets of saliva, respiratory secretions, or urine.[1] CADV was discovered in the 1990s from rodent species in the Llanos in Venezuela.[2]

Caño Delgadito orthohantavirus
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Negarnaviricota
Class: Ellioviricetes
Order: Bunyavirales
Family: Hantaviridae
Genus: Orthohantavirus
Species:
Caño Delgadito orthohantavirus
Synonyms
  • Cano Delgadito hantavirus
  • Caño Delgadito hantavirus
  • Cano Delgadito orthohantavirus
  • Cano Delgadito virus
  • Caño Delgadito virus

References
  1. Milazzo ML, Duno G, Utrera A, Richter MH, Duno F, de Manzione N, Fulhorst CF (2010). "Natural host relationships of hantaviruses native to western Venezuela". Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 10 (6): 605–611. doi:10.1089/vbz.2009.0118. PMC 2979332. PMID 20055578.
  2. Fulhorst, C.F.; et al. (October 1997). "Isolation, characterization and geographic distribution of Caño Delgadito virus, a newly discovered South American hantavirus (family Bunyaviridae)". Virus Research. 51 (2): 159–171. doi:10.1016/s0168-1702(97)00091-9. PMID 9498614.


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