| xi river virus, a new bat reovirus isolated in southern china. | nelson bay orthoreovirus (nbv) is a species in the genus orthoreovirus, family reoviridae, containing 4, possibly 5, members. here, we report a putative sixth member, xi river virus (xrv), isolated from fruit bats collected in a location near the xi river, guangdong province, china. this virus showed the same electron microscopic morphology as nbv, fusogenic cpe, and a 10-segmented double-strand rna genome, as well as high sequence identity to nbv members. it is the first bat reovirus isolated i ... | 2010 | 20495835 |