Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2013)

Novel Lyssavirus in Bat, Spain

  • Nidia Aréchiga Ceballos,
  • Sonia Vázquez Morón,
  • José M. Berciano,
  • Olga Nicolás,
  • Carolina Aznar López,
  • Javier Juste,
  • Cristina Rodríguez Nevado,
  • Álvaro Aguilar Setién,
  • Juan E. Echevarría

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1905.121071
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 5
pp. 793 – 795

Abstract

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A new tentative lyssavirus, Lleida bat lyssavirus, was found in a bent-winged bat (Miniopterus schreibersii) in Spain. It does not belong to phylogroups I or II, and it seems to be more closely related to the West Causasian bat virus, and especially to the Ikoma lyssavirus.

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