Detection of Diverse Novel Bat Astrovirus Sequences in the Czech Republic ...

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Astroviruses are a major cause of gastroenteritis in humans and animals. Recently, novel groups of astroviruses were identified in apparently healthy insectivorous bats. We report the detection of diverse novel astrovirus sequences in nine different...

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Main Authors: Dufkova, Lucie, Straková, Petra, Širmarová, Jana, Salát, Jiří, Moutelíková, Romana, Chrudimský, Tomáš, Bartonička, Tomáš, Nowotny, Norbert, Růžek, Daniel
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2015
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bat
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13491319
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13491319
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Summary:(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Astroviruses are a major cause of gastroenteritis in humans and animals. Recently, novel groups of astroviruses were identified in apparently healthy insectivorous bats. We report the detection of diverse novel astrovirus sequences in nine different European bat species: Eptesicus serotinus, Hypsugo savii, Myotis emarginatus, M. mystacinus, Nyctalus noctula, Pipistrellus nathusii or P. pygmaeus, P. pipistrellus, Vespertilio murinus, and Rhinolophus hipposideros. In six bat species, astrovirus sequences were detected for the first time. One astrovirus strain detected in R. hipposideros clustered phylogenetically with Chinese astrovirus strains originating from bats of the families Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae. All other Czech astrovirus sequences from vesper bats formed, together with one Hungarian sequence, a separate monophyletic lineage within the bat astrovirus group. These findings provide new insights into the molecular epidemiology, ecology, and ...