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Whitewater Arroyo virus

New World arenavirus. Epidemiology: - recovered from Neotoma albigula (white-throated woodrat) in New Mexico - appears associated with deaths in California with symptoms suggestive of a hemorrhagic fever.

General

arenavirus

Properties

KINGDOM: virus GENOME-TYPE: RNA SINGLE-STRANDED NEGATIVE-STRAND CIRCULAR GENOME-SIZE: 10-14 kB ENVELOPE: PRESENT CAPSID-SYMMETRY: HELICAL

References

  1. Enserink. Science 289:842-3, 2000 (news)
  2. Byrd et al. MMWR 49:709-11, 2000