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Molecular phylogeny of hantaviruses harbored by insectivorous bats in Côte d'Ivoire and Vietnam.
Viruses - 29 Apr 2014
Gu Se Hun, Lim Burton K, Kadjo Blaise, Arai Satoru, Kim Jeong-Ah, Nicolas Violaine, Lalis Aude, Denys Christiane, Cook Joseph A, Dominguez Samuel R, Holmes Kathryn V, Urushadze Lela, Sidamonidze Ketevan, Putkaradze Davit, Kuzmin Ivan V, Kosoy Michael Y, Song Jin-Won, Yanagihara Richard
Abstract excerpt
The recent discovery of genetically distinct hantaviruses in multiple species of shrews and moles prompted a further exploration of their host diversification by analyzing frozen, ethanol-fixed and RNAlater®-preserved archival tissues and fecal samples from 533 bats (representing seven families, 28 genera and 53 species in the order Chiroptera), captured in Asia, Africa and the Americas in 1981-2012, using...
Topics
- Animals
- Chiroptera
- Cluster Analysis
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Genetic Variation
- Orthohantavirus
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Viral
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction