Rockport virus explained

Rockport virus (RKPV) is a single-stranded, enveloped, negative-sense RNA orthohantavirus.^[1]

Natural reservoir

Rockport virus was first isolated in archival tissues of four Eastern moles found in and around Rockport, Texas.^{[2] [3]}

Virology

Phylogenetic analysis shows Rockport virus clusters geographically with Andes virus (ANDV) and Sin Nombre virus (SNV), both of which are carried by sigmodontine and Neotominae rodents. It shares the same S and the L genomic-segment with Puumala virus (PUUV), Tula virus (TULV), and Prospect Hill virus (PHV).^{[4] [5] [6]}

See also

• Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
• 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak
• Cross-species transmission
• Hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome

External links

• CDC's Hantavirus Technical Information Index page
• Viralzone: Hantavirus
• Virus Pathogen Database and Analysis Resource (ViPR): Bunyaviridae
• Occurrences and deaths in North and South America

Notes and References

1. Hae Ji Kang . Shannon N. Bennett . Andrew G. Hope. Joseph A. Cook . Richard Yanagihara . amp . 2011 . Shared ancestry between a newfound mole-borne hantavirus and hantaviruses harbored by cricetid rodents . . 85 . 15 . 7496–7503 . 21632770 . 3147906 . 10.1128/JVI.02450-10.
2. Hall T. A. BioEdit: a user-friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis program for Windows 95/98/NT. Nucleic Acids Symp. Ser. (Oxf.) 41:95–98.
3. Hanawalt F. A. Habits of the common mole: Scalopus aquaticus machrinus (Rafinesque). Ohio J. Sci. 22:164–169.
4. Kang H. J., et al. Host switch during evolution of a genetically distinct hantavirus in the American shrew mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii). Virology 388:8–14.
5. Arai S., et al. Hantavirus in northern short-tailed shrew, United States. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 13:1420–1423.
6. Arai S., et al. Phylogenetically distinct hantaviruses in the masked shrew (Sorex cinereus) and dusky shrew (Sorex monticolus) in the United States. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 78:348–351.