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Published on: August 27, 2019
Novel hantavirus identified in black-bearded tomb bats, China
Lin Xu1, Jianmin Wu2, Biao He1
1Military Veterinary Institute, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, China.
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.

