1. Highly Diverse Arenaviruses in Neotropical Bats, Brazil.
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Bentim Góes, Luiz Gustavo, Fischer, Carlo, Almeida Campos, Angélica Cristine, de Carvalho, Cristiano, Moreira-Soto, Andrés, Ambar, Guilherme, da Rosa, Adriana Ruckert, Cardoso de Oliveira, Debora, Jo, Wendy Karen, Cruz-Neto, Ariovaldo P., Pedro, Wagner André, Queiroz, Luzia Helena, Minoprio, Paola, Durigon, Edison L., Drexler, Jan Felix, Ruckert da Rosa, Adriana, and de Oliveira, Debora Cardoso
- Abstract
We detected arenavirus RNA in 1.6% of 1,047 bats in Brazil that were sampled during 2007-2011. We identified Tacaribe virus in 2 Artibeus sp. bats and a new arenavirus species in Carollia perspicillata bats that we named Tietê mammarenavirus. Our results suggest that bats are an underrecognized arenavirus reservoir. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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