A Novel Chiropteran Circovirus Genome Recovered from a Brazilian Insectivorous Bat Species

Francisco Esmaile Sales Lima; Samuel Paulo Cibulski; Aline Gehlen Dall Bello; Fabiana Quoos Mayer; André Alberto Witt; Paulo Michel Roehe; Pedro Alves d'Azevedo

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01393-15

A Novel Chiropteran Circovirus Genome Recovered from a Brazilian Insectivorous Bat Species

Genome Announc. 2015 Nov 25;3(6):e01393-15. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01393-15.

Authors

Francisco Esmaile Sales Lima¹, Samuel Paulo Cibulski², Aline Gehlen Dall Bello³, Fabiana Quoos Mayer⁴, André Alberto Witt⁵, Paulo Michel Roehe², Pedro Alves d'Azevedo³

Affiliations

¹ Molecular Microbiology Laboratory, Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil esmaile.sales@gmail.com.
² Department of Microbiology, Virology Laboratory, Immunology and Parasitology, Institute of Basic Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
³ Molecular Microbiology Laboratory, Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
⁴ Fepagro Animal Health, Institute of Veterinary Research "DesidérioFinamor" (IPVDF), Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
⁵ Health Monitoring, Centro Estadual de Vigilância em Saúde, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Abstract

This report describes the identification and characterization of a novel circovirus using metagenomic approaches in respiratory fluid samples from Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis). The genome and deduced protein sequences share low identity with another circovirus recovered in distantly related bats from China.