Bombali Virus in Mops condylurus Bats, Guinea

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 25; no. 9; pp. 1774 - 1775
• Main Authors: Karan, Lyudmila S, Makenov, Marat T, Korneev, Mikhail G, Sacko, Noumany, Boumbaly, Sanaba, Yakovlev, Sergey A, Kourouma, Kerfalla, Bayandin, Roman B, Gladysheva, Anastasiya V, Shipovalov, Andrey V, Yurganova, Irina A, Grigorieva, Yana E, Fedorova, Marina V, Scherbakova, Svetlana A, Kutyrev, Vladimir V, Agafonov, Alexander P, Maksyutov, Renat A, Shipulin, German A, Maleev, Viktor V, Boiro, Mamadou, Akimkin, Vasiliy G, Popova, Anna Y
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.09.2019; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Animals; Bats, Guinea; Bombali virus; Bombali Virus in; Chaerephon pumilus; Chiroptera - virology; Disease Outbreaks - prevention & control; Disease Reservoirs; Ebola; Ebola hemorrhagic fever; Ebola virus; Ebolavirus - isolation & purification; Filoviridae; free-tailed bats; Guinea - epidemiology; Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - epidemiology; Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - transmission; Humans; Liberia - epidemiology; Mops condylurus; Research Letter; RNA; Zoonoses; Liberia; Guinea; Sierra Leone; Russia; Liberia; EVD; viruses; EBOV; Filoviridae; Guinea; Chaerephon pumilus; Bombali virus; Angolan free-tailed bats; Ebola; Mops condylurus; Russia
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2509.190581

In 2018, a previously unknown Ebola virus, Bombali virus, was discovered in Sierra Leone. We describe detection of Bombali virus in Guinea. We found viral RNA in internal organs of 3 Angolan free-tailed bats (Mops condylurus) trapped in the city of N'Zerekore and in a nearby village.