A Novel Rhabdovirus Isolated from the Straw-Colored Fruit Bat Eidolon helvum, with Signs of Antibodies in Swine and Humans

• Published in: Journal of virology Vol. 89; no. 8; pp. 4588 - 4597
• Main Authors: Binger, Tabea, Annan, Augustina, Drexler, Jan Felix, Müller, Marcel Alexander, Kallies, René, Adankwah, Ernest, Wollny, Robert, Kopp, Anne, Heidemann, Hanna, Dei, Dickson, Agya-Yao, Festus Courage, Junglen, Sandra, Feldt, Torsten, Kurth, Andreas, Oppong, Samuel, Adu-Sarkodie, Yaw, Drosten, Christian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society for Microbiology 01.04.2015
• Subjects: Analysis of Variance; Animals; Antibodies, Viral - blood; Base Sequence; Cercopithecus aethiops; Chiroptera - virology; Eidolon helvum; Fluorescent Antibody Technique; Genetic Diversity and Evolution; Ghana; Humans; Likelihood Functions; Models, Genetic; Molecular Sequence Annotation; Molecular Sequence Data; Neutralization Tests; Phylogeny; Rhabdoviridae - genetics; Rhabdoviridae - immunology; Rhabdovirus; Seasons; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Species Specificity; Spleen - virology; Swine - blood; Swine - immunology; Vero Cells; Viral Plaque Assay; Ghana

Bats have been implicated as reservoirs of emerging viruses. Bat species forming large social groups and roosting in proximity to human communities are of particular interest. In this study, we sampled a colony of ca. 350,000 individuals of the straw-colored fruit bat Eidolon helvum in Kumasi, the s...