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Volume 19, Number 12—December 2013
Synopsis

Twenty-Year Summary of Surveillance for Human Hantavirus Infections, United States

Barbara KnustComments to Author  and Pierre E. Rollin
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Table

Summary of laboratory-confirmed hantavirus pulmonary syndrome cases caused by viruses other than Sin Nombre virus, United States, 1993–2007

Virus, reservoir, state No. cases Year References
Bayou, Marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) (18,20,21)
Texas 4 1995, 1996, 2001, 2007
Louisiana
 1
 1993
Black Creek Canal, Hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) (19)
Florida
 1
 1993
New York, White-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) (22,23)
New York
 2
 1994, 1995
Monongahela, Deer mouse (P. maniculatus) (24–26)
Pennsylvania 2 1997
West Virginia 2 2004

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