Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 1999)

Genetic Evidence of Dobrava Virus in Apodemus agrarius in Hungary

  • Jerrold J. Scharninghausen,
  • Hermann Meyer,
  • Martin Pfeffer,
  • Donald S. Davis,
  • Rodney L. Honeycutt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0503.990324
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 3
pp. 468 – 470

Abstract

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Using nested polymerase chain reaction, we sequenced Dobrava virus (DOB) from the rodent Apodemus agrarius in Hungary. The samples we isolated group with DOB samples previously isolated from A. flavicollis. This grouping may indicate host switching.

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