New Exposure Location for Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Case, California, USA, 2018

We describe a case of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in a patient exposed to Sin Nombre virus in a coastal county in California, USA, that had no previous record of human cases. Environmental evaluation coupled with genotypic analysis of virus isolates from the case-patient and locally trapped rodent...

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Published in:	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Authors:	Anne M. Kjemtrup, Sharon Messenger, Amy M. Meza, Tina Feiszli, Melissa Hardstone Yoshimizu, Kerry Padgett, Sunita Singh
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-10-01
Subjects:	hantavirus pulmonary syndrome Peromyscus maniculatus Sin Nombre virus molecular epidemiology viruses vector-borne diseases
Online Access:	https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/10/19-0058_article