Novel hantavirus identified in black-bearded tomb bats, China

Lin Xu; Jianmin Wu; Biao He; Shaomin Qin; Lele Xia; Minchao Qin; Nan Li; Changchun Tu

doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2015.01.018

Novel hantavirus identified in black-bearded tomb bats, China

Infect Genet Evol. 2015 Apr:31:158-60. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2015.01.018. Epub 2015 Jan 31.

Authors

Lin Xu¹, Jianmin Wu², Biao He¹, Shaomin Qin², Lele Xia¹, Minchao Qin³, Nan Li¹, Changchun Tu⁴

Affiliations

¹ Military Veterinary Institute, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, China.
² Guangxi Veterinary Research Institute, Nanning, Guangxi, China.
³ Laibin Center for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Laibin, Guangxi, China.
⁴ Military Veterinary Institute, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, China; Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China. Electronic address: changchun_tu@hotmail.com.

Abstract

Hantaviruses cause life-threatening diseases in human worldwide. Rodents, insectivores and bats are known hantaviral reservoirs, but lack of complete genomic sequences of bat-borne hantaviruses impedes phylogenetic and evolutionary comparison with those of rodents and insectivores. Here, a novel bat-borne hantavirus, Laibin virus (LBV), has been identified in a black-bearded tomb bat in China. The complete genomic sequence shows that LBV is only distantly related to all previously known bat-borne hantaviruses.

Keywords: Bat; Full genome; Hantavirus.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Chiroptera / virology*
Genome, Viral
Orthohantavirus / classification*
Orthohantavirus / genetics
Phylogeny
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Sequence Homology
Viral Proteins / genetics

Substances

Viral Proteins