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Candidate new rotavirus species in Schreiber's bats, Serbia.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2017
Bányai Krisztián, Kemenesi Gábor, Budinski Ivana, Földes Fanni, Zana Brigitta, Marton Szilvia, Varga-Kugler Renáta, Oldal Miklós, Kurucz Kornélia, Jakab Ferenc
Abstract excerpt
The genus Rotavirus comprises eight species designated A to H and one tentative species, Rotavirus I. In a virus metagenomic analysis of Schreiber's bats sampled in Serbia in 2014 we obtained sequences likely representing novel rotavirus species. Whole genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis classified the representative strain into a tentative tenth rotavirus species, we provisionally called Rotavirus J. The...
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