Genetic Identification of Kodoko Virus, a Novel Arenavirus of the African Pigmy Mouse (Mus Nannomys Minutoides) in West Africa

Overview

Journal Virology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2007 Mar 27

PMID 17382366

Citations 37

Authors

E Lecompte

J ter Meulen

S Emonet

S Daffis

R N Charrel

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Abstract

Genetic evidence of a novel arenavirus species related to but distinct from lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) was obtained from a rodent belonging to an endemic African subgenus of Mus (Nannomys). The phylogenetic position among Old World arenaviruses of this new arenavirus, named Kodoko virus, was reconstructed based on L and NP genes sequences. The finding of an Old World arenavirus related to LCMV outside the known geographical range of LCMV in a novel rodent species reveals new insights about the evolutionary history of arenaviruses.

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