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1. Henipavirus RNA in African bats.

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Jan Felix Drexler, Victor Max Corman, Florian Gloza-Rausch, Antje Seebens, Augustina Annan, Anne Ipsen, Thomas Kruppa, Marcel A Müller, Elisabeth K V Kalko, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Samuel Oppong, and Christian Drosten

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Medicine, Science
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BackgroundHenipaviruses (Hendra and Nipah virus) are highly pathogenic members of the family Paramyxoviridae. Fruit-eating bats of the Pteropus genus have been suggested as their natural reservoir. Human Henipavirus infections have been reported in a region extending from Australia via Malaysia into Bangladesh, compatible with the geographic range of Pteropus. These bats do not occur in continental Africa, but a whole range of other fruit bats is encountered. One of the most abundant is Eidolon helvum, the African Straw-coloured fruit bat.Methodology/principal findingsFeces from E. helvum roosting in an urban setting in Kumasi/Ghana were tested for Henipavirus RNA. Sequences of three novel viruses in phylogenetic relationship to known Henipaviruses were detected. Virus RNA concentrations in feces were low.Conclusions/significanceThe finding of novel putative Henipaviruses outside Australia and Asia contributes a significant extension of the region of potential endemicity of one of the most pathogenic virus genera known in humans.

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2009
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2. Henipavirus RNA in African bats

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Samuel K. Oppong, Florian Gloza-Rausch, Augustina Annan, Christian Drosten, Victor M. Corman, Elisabeth K. V. Kalko, Anne Ipsen, Thomas Kruppa, Marcel A. Müller, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Antje Seebens, and Jan Felix Drexler

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Infectious Diseases/Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases, animal structures, Range (biology), Science, Zoology, Biology, Virology/Emerging Viral Diseases, 03 medical and health sciences, Genus, Chiroptera, Infectious Diseases/Viral Infections, parasitic diseases, Animals, Natural reservoir, Hendra Virus, Henipavirus, Disease Reservoirs, 030304 developmental biology, 0303 health sciences, Multidisciplinary, 030306 microbiology, virus diseases, food and beverages, biology.organism_classification, Pteropus, Virology, Virology/Virus Evolution and Symbiosis, Eidolon helvum, Henipavirus Infections, RNA, Viral, Medicine, Ecology/Ecosystem Ecology, Ecology/Environmental Microbiology, Research Article
Abstract

BackgroundHenipaviruses (Hendra and Nipah virus) are highly pathogenic members of the family Paramyxoviridae. Fruit-eating bats of the Pteropus genus have been suggested as their natural reservoir. Human Henipavirus infections have been reported in a region extending from Australia via Malaysia into Bangladesh, compatible with the geographic range of Pteropus. These bats do not occur in continental Africa, but a whole range of other fruit bats is encountered. One of the most abundant is Eidolon helvum, the African Straw-coloured fruit bat.Methodology/principal findingsFeces from E. helvum roosting in an urban setting in Kumasi/Ghana were tested for Henipavirus RNA. Sequences of three novel viruses in phylogenetic relationship to known Henipaviruses were detected. Virus RNA concentrations in feces were low.Conclusions/significanceThe finding of novel putative Henipaviruses outside Australia and Asia contributes a significant extension of the region of potential endemicity of one of the most pathogenic virus genera known in humans.

Published
2009

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