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JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY
Volume 91, Issue -, Pages 1315-1324Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.017798-0
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- National Institutes of Health [AI051292, U54 AI57158, NO1 AI30027]
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- US Department of Defense
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Merino Walk virus (MWV), a proposed novel tentative species of the family Arenaviridae, was isolated from a rodent, Myotomys unisulcatus, collected at Merino Walk, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1985. Full-length genomic sequence confirmed MWV as an arenavirus related distantly to Mobala, Mopeia and Ippy viruses, all members of the Old World arenavirus complex. We propose MWV as a tentative novel species in the Lassa lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus complex, based on its isolation from a novel rodent species and its genetic and serological characteristics.
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