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Bat Astrovirus in Mozambique

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العنوان: Bat Astrovirus in Mozambique
المؤلفون: Flora Hoarau, Gildas Le Minter, Léa Joffrin, M. Corrie Schoeman, Erwan Lagadec, Beza Ramasindrazana, Andréa Dos Santos, Steven M. Goodman, Eduardo S. Gudo, Patrick Mavingui, Camille Lebarbenchon
المصدر: Virology Journal, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-5 (2018)
بيانات النشر: BMC, 2018.
سنة النشر: 2018
المجموعة: LCC:Infectious and parasitic diseases
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mammastrovirus, Mayotte, Mozambique, Madagascar, Triaenops afer, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216
الوصف: Abstract Astroviruses (AstVs) are responsible for infection of a large diversity of mammalian and avian species, including bats, aquatic birds, livestock and humans. We investigated AstVs circulation in bats in Mozambique and Mayotte, a small island in the Comoros Archipelago located between east Africa and Madagascar. Biological material was collected from 338 bats and tested for the presence of the AstV RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase gene with a pan-AstV semi-nested polymerase chain reaction assay. None of the 79 samples obtained from Mayotte bats (Pteropus seychellensis comorensis and Chaerephon pusillus) tested positive; however, 20.1% of bats sampled in Mozambique shed AstVs at the time of sampling and significant interspecific variation in the proportion of positive bats was detected. Many AstVs sequences obtained from a given bat species clustered in different phylogenetic lineages, while others seem to reflect some level of host-virus association, but also with AstVs previously reported from Malagasy bats. Our findings support active circulation of a large diversity of AstVs in bats in the western Indian Ocean islands, including the southeastern African coast, and highlight the need for more detailed assessment of its risk of zoonotic transmission to human populations.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1743-422X
Relation: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12985-018-1011-x; https://doaj.org/toc/1743-422X
DOI: 10.1186/s12985-018-1011-x
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/b8bf5559a32b42f8a4a1d889ef309772
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.b8bf5559a32b42f8a4a1d889ef309772
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:1743422X
DOI:10.1186/s12985-018-1011-x