Genetically distinct hantaviruses in two bat species in Panamá

• Published in: iScience Vol. 28; no. 6; p. 112749
• Main Authors: Yamada, Karen, Kikuchi, Fuka, Dunnum, Jonathan L., Gutiérrez-Moreno, Pablo, González D., Publio E., Armién, Blas, Pérez-Callejas, Mihail, Land, Danielle, Colella, Jocelyn P., Mizutani, Tetsuya, Maeda, Ken, Suzuki, Motoi, Greiman, Stephen E., Carrión-Bonilla, Carlos Alberto, Cook, Joseph A., Yanagihara, Richard, Arai, Satoru
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 20.06.2025; Elsevier
• Subjects: Microbiology; Virology; Zoology; Microbiology; Zoology; Virology

Recent discoveries of hantaviruses in bats in Europe, Asia, and Africa have prompted expanded explorations of their host diversity and geographic distribution. In screening lung tissue of 218 bats from Panamá, representing 19 genera and five families, we detected hantavirus RNA in two of three great...