| novel hantavirus identified in black-bearded tomb bats, china. | 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-born ... | 2015 | 25643870 |