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New York Virus

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New York Virus
A local strain of the Seoul virus, which belongs to the Hantavirus group which causes Hanta pulmonary syndrome and is linked to chronic renal disease and hypertension


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Seven species in the virus family Bunyaviridae, genus Hantavirus (1), have been causally associated with HPS: Sin Nombre virus (SNV), New York virus (NYV), Black Creek Canal virus (BCCV), Bayou virus (BAYV), and Choclo virus (CHOV) in North America (2-6), and Andes virus (ANDV) and Laguna Negra virus (LANV) in South America (7,8).
Comparison of this patient's hantavirus sequence with those of New York virus (strains NY-1 and RI-1) and SNV (strains NMH10, CC74 and CC107) identified a nucleotide difference of 14.
Although these authors found evidence of cospeciation between the rodent host phylogeny and the host-borne hantavirus phylogeny, evidence of host switching was observed with Peromyscus leucopus--borne New York virus grouped with P.
 
 
 
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