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

Abstract

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 rodents identified the likely exposure location.

Keywords

• hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
• Peromyscus maniculatus
• Sin Nombre virus
• molecular epidemiology
• viruses
• vector-borne diseases