CATACAMAS VIRUS, A HANTAVIRAL SPECIES NATURALLY ASSOCIATED WITH ORYZOMYS COUESI (COUES’ ORYZOMYS) IN HONDURAS

MARY L. MILAZZO Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; United States Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine–West, Fort Lewis, Washington; Dirección de Vigilancia de Salud, Secretaria de Salud de Honduras, Contiguo al Correo Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

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MARIA N. B. CAJIMAT Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; United States Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine–West, Fort Lewis, Washington; Dirección de Vigilancia de Salud, Secretaria de Salud de Honduras, Contiguo al Correo Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

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J. DELTON HANSON Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; United States Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine–West, Fort Lewis, Washington; Dirección de Vigilancia de Salud, Secretaria de Salud de Honduras, Contiguo al Correo Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

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ROBERT D. BRADLEY Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; United States Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine–West, Fort Lewis, Washington; Dirección de Vigilancia de Salud, Secretaria de Salud de Honduras, Contiguo al Correo Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

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MIGUEL QUINTANA Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; United States Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine–West, Fort Lewis, Washington; Dirección de Vigilancia de Salud, Secretaria de Salud de Honduras, Contiguo al Correo Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

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CATALINA SHERMAN Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; United States Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine–West, Fort Lewis, Washington; Dirección de Vigilancia de Salud, Secretaria de Salud de Honduras, Contiguo al Correo Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

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REINA T. VELÁSQUEZ Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; United States Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine–West, Fort Lewis, Washington; Dirección de Vigilancia de Salud, Secretaria de Salud de Honduras, Contiguo al Correo Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

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CHARLES F. FULHORST Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas; Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; United States Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine–West, Fort Lewis, Washington; Dirección de Vigilancia de Salud, Secretaria de Salud de Honduras, Contiguo al Correo Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

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The primary objective of this study was to extend our knowledge of the geographical distribution, genetic diversity, and natural host associations of the hantaviruses indigenous to North America. Antibody to a hantavirus was found in 5 (20.8%) of 24 Coues’ oryzomys (Oryzomys couesi) and none of 41 other rodents captured near the town of Catacamas in eastern Honduras, and a hantavirus was isolated from one of the antibody-positive Coues’ oryzomys. Analyses of nucleotide and amino acid sequence data indicated that the viral isolate is a strain of a novel hantaviral species (proposed species name “Catacamas virus”) that is phylogenetically most closely related to Bayou virus, a hantaviral species that is principally associated with Oryzomys palustris (marsh oryzomys) in the southeastern United States. Catacamas virus is the first evidence for the occurrence of a hantaviral species in Honduras and the first evidence that a hantaviral species is naturally associated with an Oryzomys species other than O. palustris.

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Reprint requests: Charles F. Fulhorst, Department of Pathology, Delivery code L14686, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., Galveston, TX 77555-0609 E-mail: cfulhors@utmb.edu.
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