Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever is an infectious disease caused by Guanarito virus (GTOV), a New World arenavirus in the Arenaviridae family of -ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by rodents. GTOV was first isolated in 1989 in Venezuela.
Experimental infection of the cane mouse Zygodontomys brevicauda (family Muridae) with guanarito virus (Arenaviridae), the etiologic agent of Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever.