Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2017)

Genetically Diverse Filoviruses in Rousettus and Eonycteris spp. Bats, China, 2009 and 2015

  • Xing-Lou Yang,
  • Yun-Zhi Zhang,
  • Ren-Di Jiang,
  • Hua Guo,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Bei Li,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Li Wang,
  • Cecilia Waruhiu,
  • Ji-Hua Zhou,
  • Shi-Yue Li,
  • Peter Daszak,
  • Lin-Fa Wang,
  • Zheng-Li Shi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2303.161119
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 3
pp. 482 – 486

Abstract

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Genetically divergent filoviruses detected in Rousettus and Eonycteris spp. bats in China exhibited 61%–99% nt identity with reported filoviruses, based on partial replicase sequences, and they demonstrated lung tropism. Co-infection with 4 different filoviruses was found in 1 bat. These results demonstrate that fruit bats are key reservoirs of filoviruses.

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