Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2019)
Nipah Virus Sequences from Humans and Bats during Nipah Outbreak, Kerala, India, 2018
Abstract
We retrieved Nipah virus (NiV) sequences from 4 human and 3 fruit bat (Pteropus medius) samples from a 2018 outbreak in Kerala, India. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that NiV from humans was 96.15% similar to a Bangladesh strain but 99.7%–100% similar to virus from Pteropus spp. bats, indicating bats were the source of the outbreak.
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