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Virus Name: Itaituba

Abbreviation: ITAV

Status
Possible Arbovirus

Select Agent
No

SALS Level
3

SALS Basis
Isufficient experience with virus; i.e., experience factor from SALS surveys was less than 500 in laboratory facilities with low biocontainment.

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Antigenic Group
Phlebotomus Fever

Section VII - Natural Host Range (Additional text can be added below table)

Vertebrate (species and organ) and arthropod	No. isolations/No. tested	No. with antibody/No. tested Test used	Country and region


No other isolations of the virus were obtained from viscera and/or blood from 921 wild birds, 55 marsupials, 168 rodents, 58 monkeys, 2 edentates, and 2 other animals captured in the Tapacurazinho area in 1971-72. Virus was not isolated from the blood and/or viscera and salivary glands taken from 58 bats collected 25 km. east of Itaituba.

Didelphis m. marsupialis (blood)	1		Itaituba, Para, Brazil
Didelphis m. marsupialis		1/38 NT	Itaituba and Altamira, Para, Brazil
Philander o. opossum		0/17 NT
Marmosa spp.		0/3 NT
Monodephis spp.		0/3 NT
Metachirus nudicaudatus		0/3 NT
Caluromys spp.		0/3 NT

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