Azagny Virus

	Azagny Virus Azagny virus (AZGV) is an ''Orthohantavirus ''Orthohantavirus'' is a genus of viruses that includes all hantaviruses (family ''Hantaviridae'') that cause disease in humans. Orthohantaviruses, hereafter referred to as hantaviruses, are naturally found primarily in rodents. In general, each ...'' found in West African pygmy shrews. The virus was named after the Azagny National Park, where some sample collecting occurred. References Hantaviridae {{Virus-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Orthohantavirus ''Orthohantavirus'' is a genus of viruses that includes all hantaviruses (family ''Hantaviridae'') that cause disease in humans. Orthohantaviruses, hereafter referred to as hantaviruses, are naturally found primarily in rodents. In general, each hantavirus is carried by one rodent species and each rodent that carries a hantavirus carries one hantavirus species. Hantaviruses in their natural reservoirs usually cause an asymptomatic, persistent infection. In humans, however, hantaviruses cause two diseases: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). HFRS is mainly caused by hantaviruses in Africa, Asia, and Europe, called Old World hantaviruses, and HPS is usually caused by hantaviruses in the Americas, called New World hantaviruses. Hantaviruses are transmitted mainly through aerosols and droplets that contain rodent excretions, as well as through contaminated food, bites, and scratches. Environmental factors such as rainfall, temperature, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	West African Pygmy Shrew The West African pygmy shrew or obscure white-toothed shrew (''Crocidura obscurior'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The Ivory Coast white-toothed shrew (''C. eburnea''), which is sympatric with ''C. obscurior'' in Ivory Coast, Liberia & Guinea, and closely resembles it aside from having a longer skull, was considered conspecific with ''C. obscurior'' until a 2014 study delineated both as being genetically distinct sister species In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree. Definition The expression is most easily illustrated by a cladogram: Taxon A and ... to one another. References Crocidura Mammals described in 1958 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Henri Heim de Balsac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Azagny National Park Assagny National Park or Azagny National Park is a national park in the south of Ivory Coast. It is situated on the coast some to the west of Abidjan, between the mouth of the Bandama River and the Ébrié Lagoon, and occupies an area of about . Description Assagny National Park is located in Ivory Coast adjoining the Gulf of Guinea. To the west lies the Bandama River and to the east the Ébrié Lagoon, the park being traversed by the navigable Asagni Canal which connects the two. The park is surrounded by slightly higher ground and consists of a broad, often waterlogged, basin in which the water level fluctuates. The climate here is wet all year round, with an average rainfall of . About two thirds of the park consists of swamps dominated by mangroves and there is additionally some moist forest and coastal savanna. The park has potential for tourism. Flora The primary forest is dominated by ''Nauclea diderrichii'', ''Berlinia occidentalis'', '' Strombosia pustulata'', '' Scot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]