Limestone Canyon virus

Limestone Canyon virus (LSC) is a single-stranded, negative-sense RNA zoonotic Orthohantavirus that is genetically similar to Sin Nombre orthohantavirus which causes Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in humans. HPS causing hantaviruses are found only in the United States and South America.[1]

Limestone Canyon virus
Virus classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Negarnaviricota
Class: Ellioviricetes
Order: Bunyavirales
Family: Hantaviridae
Genus: Orthohantavirus (?)
Virus:
Limestone Canyon virus

LSC has not been shown to cause HPS in humans.[2]

Reservoir

The virus was isolated from the brush mouse (Peromyscus boylii).[3] Phylogenetic analysis of M genome segment showed LSC to be very distinct from other Peromyscus-borne viruses. Other Peromyscus-associated hantaviruses include Sin Nombre orthohantavirus (SNV), New York orthohantavirus (NYV), and Monongahela virus (MGLV).[1]

See also

References
  1. Sanchez AJ, Abbott KD, Nichol ST. Genetic identification and characterization of limestone canyon virus, a unique Peromyscus-borne hantavirus. Virology. 2001 Aug 1;286(2):345–53.
  2. "DHS Guidelines for rodent hantavirus surveillance" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-13. Retrieved 2013-07-11.
  3. "ICTV 9th Report (2011) Bunyaviridae". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 7 March 2019.
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