Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2013)

Novel Poxvirus in Big Brown Bats, Northwestern United States

  • Ginny L. Emerson,
  • Robert Nordhausen,
  • Michael M. Garner,
  • John R. Huckabee,
  • Steven Johnson,
  • Ron D. Wohrle,
  • Whitni B. Davidson,
  • Kimberly Wilkins,
  • Yu Li,
  • Jeffrey B. Doty,
  • Nadia F. Gallardo-Romero,
  • Maureen G. Metcalfe,
  • Kevin L. Karem,
  • Inger K. Damon,
  • Darin S. Carroll

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1906.121713
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 6
pp. 1002 – 1004

Abstract

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A wildlife hospital and rehabilitation center in northwestern United States received several big brown bats with necrosuppurative osteomyelitis in multiple joints. Wing and joint tissues were positive by PCR for poxvirus. Thin-section electron microscopy showed poxvirus particles within A-type inclusions. Phylogenetic comparison supports establishment of a new genus of Poxviridae.

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