Rockport virus (RKPV) is a single-stranded, enveloped, negative-sense RNA orthohantavirus.
Natural reservoir Rockport virus was first isolated in archival tissues of four Eastern moles found in and around Rockport, Texas.Hall T. A. BioEdit: a user-friendly biological sequence alignment editor and analysis program for Windows 95/98/NT. Nucleic Acids Symp. Ser. (Oxf.) 41:95–98.Hanawalt F. A. Habits of the common mole: Scalopus aquaticus machrinus (Rafinesque). Ohio J. Sci. 22:164–169.
Virology
Phylogenetic analysis shows Rockport virus clusters geographically with Andes virus (ANDV) and Sin Nombre virus (SNV), both of which are carried by sigmodontine and Neotominae rodents. It shares the same S and the L genomic-segment with Puumala virus (PUUV), Tula virus (TULV), and Prospect Hill virus (PHV).Kang H. J., et al. Host switch during evolution of a genetically distinct hantavirus in the American shrew mole (Neurotrichus gibbsii). Virology 388:8–14.Arai S., et al. Hantavirus in northern short-tailed shrew, United States. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 13:1420–1423.Arai S., et al. Phylogenetically distinct hantaviruses in the masked shrew (Sorex cinereus) and dusky shrew (Sorex monticolus) in the United States. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 78:348–351.
See also Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak Cross-species transmission Hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
References
External links CDC's Hantavirus Technical Information Index page Viralzone: Hantavirus Virus Pathogen Database and Analysis Resource (ViPR): Bunyaviridae Occurrences and deaths in North and South America