| novel, potentially zoonotic paramyxoviruses from the african straw-colored fruit bat eidolon helvum. | bats carry a variety of paramyxoviruses that impact human and domestic animal health when spillover occurs. recent studies have shown a great diversity of paramyxoviruses in an urban-roosting population of straw-colored fruit bats in ghana. here, we investigate this further through virus isolation and describe two novel rubulaviruses: achimota virus 1 (achpv1) and achimota virus 2 (achpv2). the viruses form a phylogenetic cluster with each other and other bat-derived rubulaviruses, such as tuhok ... | 2013 | 23152534 |
| animal infection studies of two recently discovered african bat paramyxoviruses, achimota 1 and achimota 2. | bats are implicated as the natural reservoirs for several highly pathogenic viruses that can infect other animal species, including man. here, we investigate the potential for two recently discovered bat rubulaviruses, achimota virus 1 (achpv1) and achimota virus 2 (achpv2), isolated from urine collected under urban bat (eidolon helvum) roosts in ghana, west africa, to infect small laboratory animals. achpv1 and achpv2 are classified in the family paramyxoviridae and cluster with other bat deriv ... | 2018 | 30143747 |