Calabazo virus is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA hantavirus species of the order Bunyavirales. It is a novel New World microtine rodent-borne hantavirus discovered in Central America on the Azuero Peninsula of Panama in early 2000. Human infection with Calabazo virus results in respiratory illness similar to Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome but it is not severe or fatal and rarely requires hospitalization.[1]
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Virus classification 
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| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Riboviria |
| Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
| Phylum: | Negarnaviricota |
| Class: | Ellioviricetes |
| Order: | Bunyavirales |
| Family: | Hantaviridae |
| Genus: | Orthohantavirus |
| Virus: | Calabazo virus
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Reservoir
editCalabazo virus was identified in the cane mouse (Zygodontomys brevicauda).[2]
Transmission
editCalabazo virus has not been shown to transfer from person-to-person. Transmission by aerosolized rodent excreta still remains the only known way the hantaviruses are transmitted to humans. In general, droplet and/or fomite transfer has not been shown in these viruses in either the hemorrhagic or pulmonary forms.[3][4][5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Armien, B; Pascale, JM; Bayard, V; Munoz, C; Mosca, I; Guerrero, G; Armien, A; Quiroz, E; Castillo, Z; Zaldivar, Y; Gracia, F; Hjelle, B; Koster, F (Jun 2004). "High seroprevalence of hantavirus infection on the Azuero peninsula of Panama". Am J Trop Med Hyg. 70 (6): 682–7. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.2004.70.682. PMID 15211014.
- ^ Richard Ostfeld. Lyme disease: the ecology of a complex system. Oxford University Press October, 2010.
- ^ Peters, C.J. (2006). "Emerging Infections: Lessons from the Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers". Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association. 117: 189–197. PMC 1500910. PMID 18528473.
- ^ Crowley, J.; Crusberg, T. "Ebola and Marburg Virus Genomic Structure, Comparative and Molecular Biology". Dept. of Biology & Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Archived from the original on 2013-10-15.
- ^ Bayard, Vicente; Kitsutani, Paul T.; Barria, Eduardo O.; Luis, A. Ruedas; et al. (September 2004). "Outbreak of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, Los Santos, Panama, 1999–2000". Emerg Infect Dis. 10 (9): 1635–1642. doi:10.3201/eid1009.040143. PMC 3320309. PMID 15498167.