Volume 4, Number 1—March 1998

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Bayou Virus-Associated Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in Eastern Texas: Identification of the Rice Rat, Oryzomys palustris, as Reservoir Host

Norah Torrez-Martinez*, Mausumi Bharadwaj*, Diane Goade*, John Delury†, Peggy Moran*, Bradley Hicks†, Beverlee Nix‡, James L. Davis¶, and Brian Hjelle*

Author affiliations: *University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; †Texas Department of Health, Austin, Texas, USA; ‡Texas Department of Health, Houston, Texas, USA; ¶St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Beaumont, Texas, USA.

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Figure 1. Chest radiographs of patient T/Tx at hospital admission on August 20, 1996 (Panel A), and during a period of increasing respiratory distress on August 22, 1996 (Panel B). Note the diffuse interstitial infiltrate and peribronchial cuffing that developed over that interval.

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