Genetic Evidence for a Tacaribe Serocomplex Virus, Mexico

Abstract

We isolated arenavirus RNA from white-toothed woodrats (Neotoma leucodon) captured in a region of Mexico in which woodrats are food for humans. Analyses of nucleotide and amino acid sequence data indicated that the woodrats were infected with a novel Tacaribe serocomplex virus, proposed name Real de Catorce virus.

Keywords

• Viruses
• Arenaviridae
• zoonoses
• Tacaribe virus
• rodents
• Mexico