New alphacoronavirus in Mystacina tuberculata bats, New Zealand

Because of recent interest in bats as reservoirs of emerging diseases, we investigated the presence of viruses in Mystacina tuberculata bats in New Zealand. A novel alphacoronavirus sequence was detected in guano from roosts of M. tuberculata bats in pristine indigenous forest on a remote offshore i...

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Published in:	Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 697 - 700
Main Authors:	Hall, Richard J, Wang, Jing, Peacey, Matthew, Moore, Nicole E, McInnes, Kate, Tompkins, Daniel M
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01-04-2014 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subjects:	alphacoronavirus Animal experimentation Animals Bats Chiroptera - virology coronavirus Coronavirus infections Demographic aspects Dispatch Expedited Genetic aspects guano Health aspects metagenomics New Zealand Phylogeny viruses Viruses - genetics Viruses - isolation & purification New Zealand New Zealand bats alphacoronavirus viruses guano metagenomics coronavirus Mystacina tuberculata
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Summary:	Because of recent interest in bats as reservoirs of emerging diseases, we investigated the presence of viruses in Mystacina tuberculata bats in New Zealand. A novel alphacoronavirus sequence was detected in guano from roosts of M. tuberculata bats in pristine indigenous forest on a remote offshore island (Codfish Island).
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ISSN:	1080-6040 1080-6059
DOI:	10.3201/eid2004.131441