Genome Sequencing of Historical Encephalomyocarditis Viruses from South Africa Links the Historical 1993/4 Savanna Elephant () Outbreak to Cryptic Rodents.

From 1993 to 1994, 64 free-ranging elephants () succumbed to encephalomyocarditis in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, of which 83% were adult bulls. rodents were implicated as the reservoir host of the (EMCV) based on serology and RT-PCR. However, in the absence of sequence-confirmation of both the virus and the rodent host, definitive links between the elephant outbreak strains and rodent reservoir could not be established.