Viruses (Jul 2024)
Detection of Bombali Virus in a <i>Mops condylurus</i> Bat in Kyela, Tanzania
- Ariane Düx,
- Sudi E. Lwitiho,
- Ahidjo Ayouba,
- Caroline Röthemeier,
- Kevin Merkel,
- Sabrina Weiss,
- Guillaume Thaurignac,
- Angelika Lander,
- Leonce Kouadio,
- Kathrin Nowak,
- Victor Corman,
- Christian Drosten,
- Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann,
- Detlev H. Krüger,
- Andreas Kurth,
- Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer,
- Martine Peeters,
- Nyanda E. Ntinginya,
- Fabian H. Leendertz,
- Chacha Mangu
Affiliations
- Ariane Düx
- Helmholtz Institute for One Health, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
- Sudi E. Lwitiho
- NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center, Mbeya P.O. Box 2410, Tanzania
- Ahidjo Ayouba
- TransVIHMI, Montpellier University/IRD/INSERM, 34394 Montpellier, France
- Caroline Röthemeier
- Robert Koch Institute, 13353 Berlin, Germany
- Kevin Merkel
- Robert Koch Institute, 13353 Berlin, Germany
- Sabrina Weiss
- Robert Koch Institute, 13353 Berlin, Germany
- Guillaume Thaurignac
- TransVIHMI, Montpellier University/IRD/INSERM, 34394 Montpellier, France
- Angelika Lander
- Robert Koch Institute, 13353 Berlin, Germany
- Leonce Kouadio
- Une Santé Pour Tous, Bingerville, Côte d’Ivoire
- Kathrin Nowak
- Helmholtz Institute for One Health, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
- Victor Corman
- Institute of Virology, Charité—University Medicine Berlin, Corporate Member of Free University Berlin, Humboldt-University Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- Christian Drosten
- Institute of Virology, Charité—University Medicine Berlin, Corporate Member of Free University Berlin, Humboldt-University Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann
- Une Santé Pour Tous, Bingerville, Côte d’Ivoire
- Detlev H. Krüger
- Institute of Virology, Charité—University Medicine Berlin, Corporate Member of Free University Berlin, Humboldt-University Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- Andreas Kurth
- Robert Koch Institute, 13353 Berlin, Germany
- Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer
- Helmholtz Institute for One Health, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
- Martine Peeters
- TransVIHMI, Montpellier University/IRD/INSERM, 34394 Montpellier, France
- Nyanda E. Ntinginya
- NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center, Mbeya P.O. Box 2410, Tanzania
- Fabian H. Leendertz
- Helmholtz Institute for One Health, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
- Chacha Mangu
- NIMR-Mbeya Medical Research Center, Mbeya P.O. Box 2410, Tanzania
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/v16081227
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 16,
no. 8
p. 1227
Abstract
Bombali virus (BOMV) is a novel Orthoebolavirus that has been detected in free-tailed bats in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Kenya, and Mozambique. We screened our collection of 349 free-tailed bat lungs collected in Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania for BOMV RNA and tested 228 bat blood samples for BOMV antibodies. We did not detect BOMV-specific antibodies but found BOMV RNA in a Mops condylurus bat from Tanzania, marking the first detection of an ebolavirus in this country. Our findings further expand the geographic range of BOMV and support M. condylurus’ role as a natural BOMV host.
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