Author/Editor		Resman, Katarina; Korva, Miša; Fajs, Luka; Zidarič, Tanja; Trilar, Tomi; Avšič-Županc, Tatjana
Title		Molecular evidence and high genetic diversity of shrew-borne Seewis virus in Slovenia
Type		članek
Vol. and No.		Letnik 177, št. 1
Publication year		2013
Volume		str. 113-117
ISSN		1872-7492 - Virus research
Language		eng
Abstract		Seewis virus, the shrew-borne hantavirus from Sorex araneus, has been molecularly detected in reservoir hosts in many different central European countries and Russia. Slovenia is a known endemic country for rodent-borne hantaviruses, therefore the aim of the study was to investigate the presence of shrew-borne hantaviruses in insectivores. Viral L, S and M segment have been recovered only from tissue samples of 7 S. araneus, despite several shrew species were tested. Phylogenetic analysis showed high genetic diversity of SWSV in Slovenia, ranging from 3 to 19.4% for different viral segments. The most divergent were M segment sequences, with 19.4% nucleotide divergence among Slovenian strains. Above that, different SWSV strains from Slovenia do not group into separate geographic clusters. While three separate genetic clades were determined, two of them were simultaneously present in one location at the same time.
Keywords		hantavirus Slovenia sorex araneus seewis virus hantavirusi Slovenia Sorex araneus Seewis virus