Molecular Detection of Adenoviruses, Rhabdoviruses, and Paramyxoviruses in Bats from Kenya

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Trop Med Hyg
• Personal Author:
  Conrardy, Christina ; Tao, Ying ; Kuzmin, Ivan V. ; Niezgoda, Michael ; Agwanda, Bernard ; Breiman, Robert F. ; Anderson, Larry J. ; Rupprecht, Charles E. ; Tong, Suxiang
• Description:
  We screened 217 bats of at least 20 species from 17 locations in Kenya during July and August of 2006 for the presence of adenovirus, rhabdovirus, and paramyxovirus nucleic acids using generic reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and PCR assays. Of 217 bat fecal swabs examined, 4 bats were adenovirus DNA-positive, 11 bats were paramyxovirus RNA-positive, and 2 bats were rhabdovirus RNA-positive. Three bats were coinfected by two different viruses. By sequence comparison and phylogenetic analysis, the Kenya bat paramyxoviruses and rhabdoviruses from this study may represent novel viral lineages within their respective families; the Kenya bat adenoviruses could not be confirmed as novel, because the same region sequences from other known bat adenovirus genomes for comparison were lacking. Our study adds to previous evidence that bats carry diverse, potentially zoonotic viruses and may be coinfected with more than one virus.
• Subjects:
  Adenoviridae Adenoviridae Infections Animals Articles Chiroptera Coinfection Feces Genotype Paramyxoviridae Infections Paramyxovirinae Phylogeny Phylogeography Prevalence Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Rhabdoviridae Rhabdoviridae Infections RNA, Viral Short Report

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• Source:
  Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014; 91(2):258-266.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Kenya
• Volume:
  91
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:fafdec22f609f07c8dd8bd6f407441dac2c2ee132a12f2dbfb33cb4ea46be013
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/26615/cdc_26615_DS1.pdf
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