Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2019)

Bombali Virus in Mops condylurus Bats, Guinea

  • Lyudmila S. Karan,
  • Marat T. Makenov,
  • Mikhail G. Korneev,
  • Noumany Sacko,
  • Sanaba Boumbaly,
  • Sergey A. Yakovlev,
  • Kerfalla Kourouma,
  • Roman B. Bayandin,
  • Anastasiya V. Gladysheva,
  • Andrey V. Shipovalov,
  • Irina A. Yurganova,
  • Yana E. Grigorieva,
  • Marina V. Fedorova,
  • Svetlana A. Scherbakova,
  • Vladimir V. Kutyrev,
  • Alexander P. Agafonov,
  • Renat A. Maksyutov,
  • German A. Shipulin,
  • Viktor V. Maleev,
  • Mamadou Boiro,
  • Vasiliy G. Akimkin,
  • Anna Y. Popova

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2509.190581
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 9
pp. 1774 – 1775

Abstract

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In 2018, a previously unknown Ebola virus, Bombali virus, was discovered in Sierra Leone. We describe detection of Bombali virus in Guinea. We found viral RNA in internal organs of 3 Angolan free-tailed bats (Mops condylurus) trapped in the city of N’Zerekore and in a nearby village.

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