| shimoni bat virus, a new representative of the lyssavirus genus. | during 2009, 616 bats representing at least 22 species were collected from 10 locations throughout kenya. a new lyssavirus, named shimoni bat virus (shibv), was isolated from the brain of a dead commerson's leaf-nosed bat (hipposideros commersoni), found in a cave in the coastal region of kenya. genetic distances and phylogenetic reconstructions, implemented for each gene and for the concatenated alignment of all five structural genes (n, p, m, g and l), demonstrated that shibv cannot be identif ... | 2010 | 20138934 |
| identification of a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-like virus in a leaf-nosed bat in nigeria. | bats are reservoirs for emerging zoonotic viruses that can have a profound impact on human and animal health, including lyssaviruses, filoviruses, paramyxoviruses, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviruses (sars-covs). in the course of a project focused on pathogen discovery in contexts where human-bat contact might facilitate more efficient interspecies transmission of viruses, we surveyed gastrointestinal tissue obtained from bats collected in caves in nigeria that are frequented by ... | 2010 | 21063474 |
| bartonella spp. in bats, kenya. | we report the presence and diversity of bartonella spp. in bats of 13 insectivorous and frugivorous species collected from various locations across kenya. bartonella isolates were obtained from 23 eidolon helvum, 22 rousettus aegyptiacus, 4 coleura afra, 7 triaenops persicus, 1 hipposideros commersoni, and 49 miniopterus spp. bats. sequence analysis of the citrate synthase gene from the obtained isolates showed a wide assortment of bartonella strains. phylogenetically, isolates clustered in spec ... | 2010 | 21122216 |
| Commerson's leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros commersoni) is the likely reservoir of Shimoni bat virus. | In this study we attempted to identify whether Commerson's leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros commersoni) is the reservoir of Shimoni bat virus (SHIBV), which was isolated from a bat of this species in 2009. An alternative explanation is that the isolation of SHIBV from H. commersoni was a result of spill-over infection from other species, particularly from the Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), which frequently sympatrically roost with H. commersoni and are known as the reservoir of the phy ... | 2011 | 21867415 |
| karyotypic evolution in malagasy flying foxes (pteropodidae, chiroptera) and their hipposiderid relatives as determined by comparative chromosome painting. | pteropodidae and hipposideridae are 2 of the 9 chiropteran families that occur on madagascar. despite major advancements in the systematic study of the island's bat fauna, few karyotypic data exist for endemic species. we utilized g- and c-banding in combination with chromosome painting with myotismyotis probes to establish a genome-wide homology among malagasy species belonging to the families pteropodidae (pteropus rufus 2n = 38; rousettus madagascariensis, 2n = 36), hipposideridae (hipposider ... | 2016 | 27256929 |
| cryptic diversity in hipposideros commersoni sensu stricto (chiroptera: hipposideridae) in the western portion of madagascar. | the commerson's leaf-nosed bat, hipposideros commersoni sensu stricto, is endemic to madagascar and is relatively common in the western portion of the island, where it is found in areas, including forested zones, from sea level to 1325 m. a previous study on morphological patterns of geographic variation within the species highlighted the presence of two distinct morphotypes; larger individuals in the north portion of the island and smaller individuals in the south. the main aim of this study wa ... | 2015 | 26518602 |