Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2010)

Novel Betaherpesvirus in Bats

  • Shumpei Watanabe,
  • Ken Maeda,
  • Kazuo Suzuki,
  • Naoya Ueda,
  • Koichiro Iha,
  • Satoshi Taniguchi,
  • Hiroshi Shimoda,
  • Kentaro Kato,
  • Yasuhiro Yoshikawa,
  • Shigeru Morikawa,
  • Ichiro Kurane,
  • Hiroomi Akashi,
  • Tetsuya Mizutani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1606.091567
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 6
pp. 986 – 988

Abstract

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Because bats are associated with emerging zoonoses, identification and characterization of novel viruses from bats is needed. Using a modified rapid determination system for viral RNA/DNA sequences, we identified a novel bat betaherpesvirus 2 not detected by herpesvirus consensus PCR. This modified system is useful for detecting unknown viruses.

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