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Identification of Novel Betaherpesviruses in Iberian Bats Reveals Parallel Evolution.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2016
Pozo Francisco, Juste Javier, Vázquez-Morón Sonia, Aznar-López Carolina, Ibáñez Carlos, Garin Inazio, Aihartza Joxerra, Casas Inmaculada, Tenorio Antonio, Echevarría Juan Emilio
Abstract excerpt
A thorough search for bat herpesviruses was carried out in oropharyngeal samples taken from most of the bat species present in the Iberian Peninsula from the Vespertilionidae, Miniopteridae, Molossidae and Rhinolophidae families, in addition to a colony of captive fruit bats from the Pteropodidae family. By using two degenerate consensus PCR methods targeting two conserved genes, distinct and previously...
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