Junin virus

Similarly the New World Junin virus causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever.

Since the discovery of the Junin virus in 1958, the geographical distribution of the pathogen, although still confined to Argentina, has risen.

Junin virus, which causes Argentinian hemorrhagic fever, is linked to a town near Buenos Aires.

The natural hosts of Junin virus are rodents, particularly Mus musculus, Calomys spp.

The Junin Virus virion is a negative sense ssRNA enveloped with a variable diameter of between 50 and 300 nm.

The Junin virus genome comprises two single stranded RNA molecules, each encoding two different genes in an ambisense orientation.

A member of the genus Arenavirus, Junin virus characteristically causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever (AHF).

Later still, one of Dr. Peters's colleagues injected himself with Junin virus (which causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever) just to prove that he'd really isolated the pathogen.

Before that he rode into outbreaks of Junin virus in Argentina, Machupo virus in Bolivia and Rift Valley fever in Egypt.

Other viral hemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola virus, Lassa virus, Marburg virus and Junin virus, have to be excluded as cause.

The United States Army and the Argentine Government are inoculating part of this group with a vaccine developed at Fort Detrick against Junin virus, a disease also called Argentine hemorrhagic fever.

He listed Coxsackie viruses , causing the worst kinds of sniffles in a town in upstate New York, and Junin virus , causing a hemorrhagic fever linked to a town near Buenos Aires.

Biopreparat was a system of 18, nominally civilian, research laboratories and centers scattered chiefly around European Russia, in which a small army of scientists and technicians developed biological weapons such as anthrax, Ebola, Marburg virus, plague, Q fever, Junin virus, glanders, and smallpox.