| a nairovirus isolated from african bats causes haemorrhagic gastroenteritis and severe hepatic disease in mice. | bats can carry important zoonotic pathogens. here we use a combination of next-generation sequencing and classical virus isolation methods to identify novel nairoviruses from bats captured from a cave in zambia. this nairovirus infection is highly prevalent among giant leaf-nosed bats, hipposideros gigas (detected in samples from 16 individuals out of 38). whole-genome analysis of three viral isolates (11sb17, 11sb19 and 11sb23) reveals a typical bunyavirus tri-segmented genome. the strains form ... | 2014 | 25451856 |
| bat flies (diptera: nycteribiidae and streblidae) infesting cave-dwelling bats in gabon: diversity, dynamics and potential role in polychromophilus melanipherus transmission. | evidence of haemosporidian infections in bats and bat flies has motivated a growing interest in characterizing their transmission cycles. in gabon (central africa), many caves house massive colonies of bats that are known hosts of polychromophilus dionisi parasites, presumably transmitted by blood-sucking bat flies. however, the role of bat flies in bat malaria transmission remains under-documented. | 2016 | 27286888 |
| genetic diversity and ecology of coronaviruses hosted by cave-dwelling bats in gabon. | little research on coronaviruses has been conducted on wild animals in africa. here, we screened a wide range of wild animals collected in six provinces and five caves of gabon between 2009 and 2015. we collected a total of 1867 animal samples (cave-dwelling bats, rodents, non-human primates and other wild animals). we explored the diversity of covs and determined the factors driving the infection of covs in wild animals. based on a nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, only ba ... | 2020 | 32355260 |