12734

ID#:	12734
Description:	This transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed the ultrastructural appearance of a number of virus particles, or “virions”, of a hantavirus known as the Sin Nombre virus (SNV). In November 1993, the specific hantavirus that caused the Four Corners outbreak was isolated. Using tissue from a deer mouse that had been trapped near the New Mexico home of a person who had gotten the disease, the Special Pathogens Branch at CDC grew the virus in the laboratory. Shortly afterwards, and independently, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) also grew the virus, from a person in New Mexico, who had gotten the disease, as well as from a mouse trapped in California. The new virus was called Muerto Canyon virus, later changed to Sin Nombre virus (SNV), and the new disease caused by the virus was named hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, or HPS.
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Content Providers(s):	CDC/ Brian W.J. Mahy, PhD; Luanne H. Elliott, M.S.
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Photo Credit:	Cynthia Goldsmith
Links:	CDC – Special Pathogens Branch; All about Hantaviruses
Categories:	CDC Organization MeSH Biological Sciences Environment and Public Health Public Health Disease Transmission Disease Vectors Diseases Respiratory Tract Diseases Respiration Disorders Respiratory Insufficiency Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Virus Diseases RNA Virus Infections Bunyaviridae Infections Hantavirus Infections Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Organisms Viruses RNA Viruses Bunyaviridae Hantavirus Sin Nombre virus Vertebrate Viruses RNA Viruses Bunyaviridae Hantavirus Sin Nombre virus
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