Group Group V ((-)ssRNA) Family Bunyaviridae Rank Species | Order Unassigned Genus Hantavirus | |
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Calabazo virus is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA hantavirus species of the Bunyaviridae family. It is a novel New World microtine rodent-borne hantavirus discovered in Central America on the Azuero Peninsula of Panama in early 2000. Human infection with Calabazo virus results in respiratory illness similar to Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome but it is not severe or fatal and rarely requires hospitalization.
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Reservoir
Calabazo virus was identified in the cane mouse (Zygodontomys brevicauda).
Transmission
Calabazo virus, like all hantaviruses to date, has not been shown to transfer from person-to-person. Transmission by aerosolized rodent excreta still remains the only known way the hantaviruses are transmitted to humans. In general, droplet and/or fomite transfer has not been shown in these viruses in either the hemorrhagic or pulmonary forms.