Insectivorous bats carry host specific astroviruses and coronaviruses across different regions in Germany ...

• Main Authors: Fischer, Kerstin, Zeus, Veronika, Kwasnitschka, Linda, Kerth, Gerald, Haase, Martin, Groschup, Martin H., Balkema-Buschmann, Anne
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Animals; Astroviruses; Avastrovirus; Chiroptera; Coronavirus; Coronaviruses; Feces; Germany; Host Specificity; Host specificity; Insectivore bats; Mouth; Paramyxoviruses; Phylogeny; Phylogeography; RNA Replicase; Urine; Viral Proteins; Biodiversity; Mammalia; Chordata; Animalia; bats; bat; Myotis nattereri
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13534822; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13534822

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Recently several infectious agents with a zoonotic potential have been detected in different bat species. However, there is still a lack of knowledge on the transmission dynamics within and between bat species, as well as from bats to other mammals. To better understand these processes, it is important to compare the phylogenetic relationships between different agents to that of their respective hosts. In this study, we analysed more than 950 urine, faeces and oral swab samples collected from 653 bats from mainly four species (Myotis nattereri, Myotis bechsteinii, Myotis daubentonii, and Plecotus auritus) for the presence of coronavirus, paramyxovirus and astrovirus related nucleic acids located in three different regions of Germany. Using hemi-nested reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR amplification of fragments within the highly conserved regions of the respective RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) genes, we detected astrovirus sequences at an overall ...