The recent discovery that multiple species of shrews and moles (order Eulipotyphla, families
Soricidae and Talpidae) from Europe, Asia, Africa and/or North America harbour genetically …

Rodents have long been recognized as the principal reservoirs of hantaviruses. However,
with the discovery of genetically distinct and phylogenetically divergent lineages of …

Virus and host gene phylogenies, indicating that antigenically distinct hantaviruses (family
Bunyaviridae, genus Hantavirus) segregate into clades, which parallel the molecular …

Hantaviruses are among the most important zoonotic pathogens of humans, causing either
hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) or hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) …

Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome is endemic in the Balkans with epidemic outbreaks
and sporadic cases that have been recorded yearly since the disease was first recognized …

With the recent discovery of genetically distinct hantaviruses (family Hantaviridae) in shrews
(order Eulipotyphla, family Soricidae), the once-conventional view that rodents (order …

Although based on very limited M and L segment sequences, Artybash virus (ARTV) was
proposed previously as a unique hantavirus harbored by the Laxmann's shrew (Sorex …

Previously, we reported the discovery of a genetically distinct hantavirus, designated
Boginia virus (BOGV), in the Eurasian water shrew (Neomys fodiens), as well as the …

Hantaviruses are emerging viruses carried by rodents, soricomorphs (shrews and moles)
and bats. In Finland, Puumala virus (PUUV) was for years the only hantavirus detected. In …

Slovenia is a very diverse country from a natural geography point of view, with many
different habitats within a relatively small area, in addition to major geological and climatic …