Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2022)

Highly Diverse Arenaviruses in Neotropical Bats, Brazil

  • Luiz Gustavo Bentim Góes,
  • Carlo Fischer,
  • Angélica Cristine Almeida Campos,
  • Cristiano de Carvalho,
  • Andrés Moreira-Soto,
  • Guilherme Ambar,
  • Adriana Ruckert da Rosa,
  • Debora Cardoso de Oliveira,
  • Wendy Karen Jo,
  • Ariovaldo P. Cruz-Neto,
  • Wagner André Pedro,
  • Luzia Helena Queiroz,
  • Paola Minoprio,
  • Edison L. Durigon,
  • Jan Felix Drexler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2812.220980
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 12
pp. 2528 – 2533

Abstract

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We detected arenavirus RNA in 1.6% of 1,047 bats in Brazil that were sampled during 2007–2011. We identified Tacaribe virus in 2 Artibeus sp. bats and a new arenavirus species in Carollia perspicillata bats that we named Tietê mammarenavirus. Our results suggest that bats are an underrecognized arenavirus reservoir.

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