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Chen JT, Zhan JB, Zhu MC, Li KJ, Liu MQ, Hu B, Cai K, Xiong HR, Chen SL, Tan WL, Chen LJ, Hou W. Diversity and genetic characterization of orthohantavirus from small mammals and humans during 2012-2022 in Hubei Province, Central China. Acta Trop 2024; 249:107046. [PMID: 37866727 DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2023.107046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2023] [Revised: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 10/24/2023]
Abstract
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is a significant public health problem in Hubei Province, China, where a novel strain of orthohantavirus, HV004, was reported in 2012. However, no systematic study has investigated the prevalence and variation of orthohantavirus in rodents and humans. Herein, 2137 small mammals were collected from ten HFRS epidemic areas in Hubei Province from 2012 to 2022, and 143 serum samples from patients with suspected hemorrhagic fever were collected from two hospitals from 2017 to 2021. Orthohantavirus RNA was recovered from 134 lung tissue samples from five rodent species, with a 6.27 % prevalence, and orthohantavirus was detected in serum samples from 25 patients. Genetic analyses revealed that orthohantavirus hantanense (HTNV), orthohantavirus seoulense (SEOV), and orthohantavirus dabieshanense (DBSV) are co-circulating in rodents in Hubei, and HTNV and SEOV were identified in patient serum. Phylogenetic analysis showed that most of the HTNV sequences were clustered with HV004, indicating that HV004-like orthohantavirus was the main HNTV subtype in rodents. Two genetic reassortments and six recombination events were observed in Hubei orthohantaviruses. In summary, this study identified the diversity of orthohantaviruses circulating in Hubei over the past decade, with the HV004-like subtype being the main genotype in rodents and patients. These findings highlight the need for continued attention and focus on orthohantaviruses, especially concerning newly identified strains.
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- Jin-Tao Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Virology/Department of Laboratory Medicine/Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences/Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, 185 Donghu Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- Institute of Health Inspection and Testing, Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control & Prevention, 6 Zhuodaoquan Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430079, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First People's Hospital of Tianmen, 1 Jingling Renming Road, Tianmen, Hubei 431700, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology/Department of Laboratory Medicine/Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences/Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, 185 Donghu Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- Division of Virology, Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention, 288 Machang Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430015, China
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- Institute of Health Inspection and Testing, Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control & Prevention, 6 Zhuodaoquan Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430079, China
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- Institute of Health Inspection and Testing, Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control & Prevention, 6 Zhuodaoquan Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430079, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology/Department of Laboratory Medicine/Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences/Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, 185 Donghu Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology/Department of Laboratory Medicine/Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences/Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, 185 Donghu Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- Department of Infection Disease, Nanjing Bioengineering (Gene) Technology Center for Medicines, 293 Zhongshan East Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology/Department of Laboratory Medicine/Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences/Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, 185 Donghu Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology/Department of Laboratory Medicine/Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences/Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, 185 Donghu Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China; School of Public Health, Wuhan University, 185 Donghu Road, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China; School of Ecology and Environment, Tibet University, 36 Jiangsu Road, Lhasa 850000, China.
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Chen JT, Qin J, Li K, Xu QY, Wang XP, Plyusnin A, Hou W, Zhang YZ. Identification and characterization of a novel subtype of Tula virus in Microtus arvalis obscurus voles sampled from Xinjiang, China. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2019; 75:104012. [PMID: 31446137 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2019.104012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2019] [Revised: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Although most of Arvicolinae associated hantaviruses can not cause disease in humans, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) cases caused by Tula virus (TULV) have been described in Europe since 2002. In addition to Europe, TULV was also identified in the Microtus arvalis obscurus voles sampled from Kazakhstan, which shares borders with China. To gain more insight into the molecular epidemiology of TULV, a total of 365 rodents representing 7 species of 4 subfamily (Arvicolinae, Murinae, Gerbillinae, and Cricetinae) were captured in Qapqal county, Xinjiang, northwest China. Hantavirus RNA was recovered from 40 lung tissue samples of M. arvalis obscurus, with the prevalence of 10.96%. Genetic analysis revealed that all recovered viral sequences were most closely related to those of TULV, but exhibited >11% nucleotide differences from all currently known TULV, suggesting that they may represent a new subtype of TULV. In the S tree, the newly identified viruses formed a distinct lineage and showed a close evolutionary relationship with those sampled from Southwestern Siberia and Kazakhstan. However, they exhibited a different clustering pattern in both the M and the L trees, suggesting the possibility of genetic reassortment. Finally, the recombination event was also observed in Xinjiang TULV viruses. In sum, all these data reveal a complex evolutionary history of TULV in Central Asia.
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- Jin-Tao Chen
- State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping Liuzi 5, 102206 Beijing, China; State Key Laboratory of Virology, Institute of Medical Virology, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, Hubei, China
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- Yili Prefecture Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Yili 835000, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping Liuzi 5, 102206 Beijing, China
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- Yili Prefecture Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Yili 835000, China
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- Yili Prefecture Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Yili 835000, China
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- Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Institute of Medical Virology, Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, Hubei, China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changping Liuzi 5, 102206 Beijing, China; Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
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