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What does hantavirus mean?

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  1. (virology) Any virus of the genus Hantavirus, transmitted by aerosolized rodent excreta or rodent bites, especially the deer mouse. Hantaviruses cause Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS): incubation lasts for 1–5 weeks, sickness begins with fever and muscle aches, followed by shortness of breath and coughing.
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Shared ancestry between a mole-borne hantavirus and hantaviruses harbored by cricetid rodents.
The patient had known exposure to mouse excreta, and because hemorrhagic pneumonia had developed, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome was suspected.
Only upon completion of the second test can an animal be considered truly uninfected by a hantavirus.
The molecular techniques will include primers that can identify Thottapalayam virus, the only hantavirus isolate from India.
Characterization of Imjin virus, a newly isolated hantavirus from the Ussuri white-toothed shrew.
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome was first recognized as a hantavirus disease in 1993 and is a disease of the Americas.

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