"Sin Nombre virus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of HANTAVIRUS which emerged in the Four Corners area of the United States in 1993. It causes a serious, often fatal pulmonary illness (HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME) in humans. Transmission is by inhaling aerosolized rodent secretions that contain virus particles, carried especially by deer mice (PEROMYSCUS maniculatus) and pinyon mice (P. truei).
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D029261
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B04.820.087.440.700
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sin Nombre virus" by people in Profiles.
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Spiropoulou CF, Srikiatkhachorn A. The role of endothelial activation in dengue hemorrhagic fever and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Virulence. 2013 Aug 15; 4(6):525-36.
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Hayasaka D, Maeda K, Ennis FA, Terajima M. Increased permeability of human endothelial cell line EA.hy926 induced by hantavirus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Virus Res. 2007 Feb; 123(2):120-7.
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Maeda K, West K, Hayasaka D, Ennis FA, Terajima M. Recombinant adenovirus vector vaccine induces stronger cytotoxic T-cell responses than recombinant vaccinia virus vector, plasmid DNA, or a combination of these. Viral Immunol. 2005; 18(4):657-67.
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Maeda K, West K, Toyosaki-Maeda T, Rothman AL, Ennis FA, Terajima M. Identification and analysis for cross-reactivity among hantaviruses of H-2b-restricted cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitopes in Sin Nombre virus nucleocapsid protein. J Gen Virol. 2004 Jul; 85(Pt 7):1909-1919.
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Kilpatrick ED, Terajima M, Koster FT, Catalina MD, Cruz J, Ennis FA. Role of specific CD8+ T cells in the severity of a fulminant zoonotic viral hemorrhagic fever, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. J Immunol. 2004 Mar 01; 172(5):3297-304.
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Terajima M, Ennis FA. Quantitation of antibody-bound and unbound Sin Nombre virus in the plasma of patient with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. J Virol Methods. 2003 Jun 30; 110(2):159-62.