| Calabazo virus | |
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Virus classification 
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| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Riboviria |
| Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
| Phylum: | Negarnaviricota |
| Class: | Ellioviricetes |
| Order: | Bunyavirales |
| Family: | Hantaviridae |
| Genus: | Orthohantavirus |
| Virus: | Calabazo virus
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Calabazo virus is an enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA hantavirus species of the order Bunyavirales. It is a novel New World microtine rodent-borne hantavirus discovered in Central America on the Azuero Peninsula of Panama in early 2000. Human infection with Calabazo virus results in respiratory illness similar to Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome but it is not severe or fatal and rarely requires hospitalization.[1]
- ^ Armien, B; Pascale, JM; Bayard, V; Munoz, C; Mosca, I; Guerrero, G; Armien, A; Quiroz, E; Castillo, Z; Zaldivar, Y; Gracia, F; Hjelle, B; Koster, F (Jun 2004). "High seroprevalence of hantavirus infection on the Azuero peninsula of Panama". Am J Trop Med Hyg. 70 (6): 682–7. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.2004.70.682. PMID 15211014.