| genetic characterization of the tick-borne orbiviruses. | the international committee for taxonomy of viruses (ictv) recognizes four species of tick-borne orbiviruses (tbos): chenuda virus, chobar gorge virus, wad medani virus and great island virus (genus orbivirus, family reoviridae). nucleotide (nt) and amino acid (aa) sequence comparisons provide a basis for orbivirus detection and classification, however full genome sequence data were only available for the great island virus species. we report representative genome-sequences for the three other t ... | 2015 | 25928203 |
| discovery and characterization of bukakata orbivirus (reoviridae:orbivirus), a novel virus from a ugandan bat. | while serological and virological evidence documents the exposure of bats to medically-important arboviruses, their role as reservoirs or amplifying hosts is less well-characterized. we describe a novel orbivirus (reoviridae:orbivirus) isolated from an egyptian fruit bat (rousettus aegyptiacus leachii) trapped in 2013 in uganda and named bukakata orbivirus. this is the fifth orbivirus isolated from a bat, however genetic information had previously only been available for one bat-associated orbiv ... | 2019 | 30832334 |