Viruses, Vol. 15, Pages 881: Phylogeny of Shrew- and Mole-Borne Hantaviruses in Poland and Ukraine

Viruses, Vol. 15, Pages 881: Phylogeny of Shrew- and Mole-Borne Hantaviruses in Poland and Ukraine Viruses doi: 10.3390/v15040881 Authors: Fuka Kikuchi Satoru Arai Janusz Hejduk Ai Hayashi Janusz Markowski Marcin Markowski Leszek Rychlik Vasyl Khodzinskyi Hajime Kamiya Tetsuya Mizutani Motoi Suzuki Beata Sikorska Paweł P. Liberski Richard Yanagihara Earlier, we demonstrated the co-circulation of genetically distinct non-rodent-borne hantaviruses, including Boginia virus (BOGV) in the Eurasian water shrew (Neomys fodiens), Seewis virus (SWSV) in the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus) and Nova virus (NVAV) in the European mole (Talpa europaea), in central Poland. To further investigate the phylogeny of hantaviruses harbored by soricid and talpid reservoir hosts, we analyzed RNAlater®-preserved lung tissues from 320 shrews and 26 moles, both captured during 1990–2017 across Poland, and 10 European moles from Ukraine for hantavirus RNA through RT-PCR and DNA sequencing. SWSV and Altai virus (ALTV) were detected in Sorex araneus and Sorex minutus in Boginia and the Białowieża Forest, respectively, and NVAV was detected in Talpa europaea in Huta Dłutowska, Poland, and in Lviv, Ukraine. Phylogenetic analyses using maximum-likelihood and Bayesian methods showed geography-specific lineages of SWSV in Poland and elsewhere in Eurasia and of NVAV in Poland and Ukraine. The ATLV strain i...
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