Ljungan virus detected in bank voles (Myodes glareolus) and yellow-necked mice (Apodemus flavicollis) from northern Italy

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 262-266

  Hauffe, Heidi C ^a   Niklasson, Bo ^b,c   Olsson, Therese ^b   Bianchi, Alessandro ^d   Rizzoli, Annapaola ^a   Klitz, William ^e,f  

^a RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^b Apodemus AB   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA LOMBARDIA E DELL EMILIA ROMAGNA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apodemus flavicollis; Ljungan virus; Myodes glareolus; Northern Italy; PCR; Type 1 diabetes

Indexed keywords

APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; LJUNGAN VIRUS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; MUS; PICORNAVIRIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MALE; MURINAE; PARECHOVIRUS; PICORNAVIRUS INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIROLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ARVICOLINAE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; ITALY; MALE; MURINAE; PARECHOVIRUS; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77449102188     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-46.1.262     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. CHANTREY, J., H. MEYER, D. BAXBY, M. BEGON, K. J. BROWN, S. M. HAZEL, T. JONES, W. I. MONTGOMERY, ANJD M. BENNETT. 1999. Cowpox: reservoir hosts and geographic range. Epidemiology and Infection 122: 455-460.
2. DEVENDRA, D., E. LIU, AND G. S. EISENBARTH, 2004. Type 1 diabetes: recent developments. British Medical Journal 328: 750-754.
3. DONOSO MANTKE, O., R. RALLIES, B. NIKLASSON, A, NITSCHE, AND M. NIEDRIG, 2007. A new quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase PCR assay and melting curve analysis for detection and genotyping of Ljungan virus strains. Journal of Virological. Methods 14.1: 71-77.
4. EKSTRÖM, J.-O., C. TOLF, R.-A. EDMAN, AND A. M. LINDBERG. 2007. Physicochemical properties of the Ljungan vims prototype viron in different environments: Inactivated by heat but resistant to acidic pH, detergents and non-physiological environments such as Vikron®containing solutions. Microbiology and Immunology 51: 841-850.
5. FREIMANIS, T., R. E. HELLER, B. SCHONECKER, AND M. BILDSOE. 2003. Effects of postnatal stress on the development of type 1 diabetes in bank voles (Clethrtonomys glareolus). International Journal of Experimental Diabesity Research 4: 21-25.
6. JOHANSSON, E. S., B. NIKLASSON, R. B. TESH, D. R. SHAFREN, A. P. A. TRAVASSOS DA ROSA, AND A. M. LINDBERG. 2003. Molecular characterization of M1146, an American isolate of Ljungan virus (LV) reveals the presence of a new LV genotype. Journal of General Virology 84: 837-844.
7. JOHANSSON, S., B, NIKLASSON, J. MAIZEL, A. E. GORBALENYA, AND A. M. LINDBERG. 2002. Molecular analysis of three Ljungan virus isolates reveals a new, close-to-root lineage of the Picornaviridae with a cluster of two unrelated 2A proteins. Journal of Virology 76: 8920-8930.
8. KALLIO-KOKKO, H., J. LAAKKONEN, A. REZOU, V. TAGLIAPIETRA, I. CATTADORI, S. E. PERKINS, P. J. HUDSON, A. CRISTOFOLINI, W. VERSINI, O. VAPALAHTI, A. VAHERI, AND H, HENTTONEN. 2006. Hantavirus and arenavirus antibody prevalence in rodents and humans in Trentino, Northern. Italy. Epidemiology and Infection 134: 830-836.
9. LUDVIGSSON, J. 2006. Why diabetes incidence increases-A unifying theory, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1079: 374-382.
10. MICHAUX, J. R., S. KINET, M. G. FILIPPUCCI, R. LIBOIS, A. BESNAHD, AND F. CATZEFLIS. 2001, Molecular identification of three sympatric species of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus, A. flavicollis, A. alpicola) in western Europe (Muridae: Rodentia). Molecular Ecology Notes 1: 260-263.
11. -, R. LIBOIS, AND M. G. FILIPPUCCI. 2005. So close and so different: Comparative phylogeography of two small mammal species, the yellownecked fieldmouse (Apodemus flavicollis) and the woodmouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) in the Western Palearctic region. Heredity 94: 52-63.
12. NIKLASSON, B., B. HÖRNFELDT, AND B. LUNDMAN. 1998. Could myocarditis, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and Guillain-Barré syndrome be caused by one or more infectious agents carried by rodents? Emerging Infectious Diseases 4: 187-193.
13. -, B. KINNUNEN, B. HÖRNFELDT, J. HÖRLING, C. BENEMAR, K. O. HEDLAND, L. MATSKOVA, T. HYYPIÄ, AND G. WINIBURG. 1999. A new Picornavirus isolated from bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus). Virology 255: 86-93.
14. -, K. E. HELLER, B. SCHØNECKER, M. BILDSØE, T. DANIELS, C. S. HAMPE, P. WIDLUND, W. T. SIMONSON, J. B. SCHAEFER, E. RUTLEDGE, L. BEKRIS, L. P. HAMMERLE, A. M. LINDBERG, S. JOHANSSON, E. ORTQVIST, B. PERSSON, AND A. LERNMARK, 2003a. Development of type 1 diabetes in wild bank voles associated with islet autoantibodies and the novel Ljungan virus. Experimental Diabetes Research 4: 35-114
15. -, B, HÖRNFELDT, E. NYHOLM, M. NIEDRIG, O. DONOSO-MANTKE, H. R. GELDERBLOM, AND A. LERNMARK. 2003b. Type 1 diabetes in Swedish bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus): Signs of disease in both colonized and wild cyclic populations at peak density. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1005: 170-175.
16. -, -, R. FEINSTEIN, A. SAMSIOE, AND B. HÖRNFELDT. 2006a. Diabetes and myocarditis in voles and lemmings at cyclic peak densities- induced by Ljungan virus? Oecologia 150: 1-7.
17. -, A. SAMSIOE, M. BLIXT, S. SANDLER, A. SJÖHOLM, E. LAGERQUIST, A. LERNMARK, AND W. KLITZ. 2006b. Prenatal viral exposure followed by adult stress produces glucose intolerance in a mouse model. Diabetologia 49: 2192-2199.
18. -, T. HULTMAN, R. KALLIES, M. NIEDRIG, R. NILSSON, P.-O. BERGGREN, L. JUNTTI-BERCGREN, S. EFENDIC, A. LERNMARK, AND W. KLITZ. 2007a. The BioBreeding rat diabetes model is infected with Ljungan virus. Diabetologia 50: 1559-1560.
19. -, A. SAMSIOE, N. PAPADOCIANNAKIS, A. KAWECKI, B. HÖRNFELDT, G. R. SAADE, AND W. KLITZ. 2007b. Association of zoonotic Ljungan virus with intrauterine fetal deaths. Birth Defects Research 79: 488-1193
20. RIZZOLI, A., R. ROSÀ, B. MANTELLI, E. PECCIIIOLI, H. HAUFFE, V. TAGLIAPIETRA, T. BENINATI, M.NETELER, AND C. GENCHI, 2004. Ixodes ricinus, malattie trasmesse e reservoirs. Parasitologia 46: 199-1122
21. SAMSIOE, A., R. FEINSTEIN, G. SAADE, A, SJÖHOLM., B. HÖRNFELDT, R. FUNDELE, W. KLITZ, AND B. NIKLASSON. 2006. Intrauterine death, fetal malformation, and delayed, pregnancy in Ljungan virus-infected mice. Birth Defects Research (Part B) 77: 251-256.
22. YOON, J.-W., AND H.-S. JUN. 2006. Viruses cause type 1 diabetes in animals. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1079: 138-146.