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Detection of Alphacoronavirus in velvety free-tailed bats (Molossus molossus) and Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) from urban area of Southern Brazil

2013; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 47; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s11262-013-0899-x

1572-994X

Francisco Esmaile de Sales Lima, Fabrício Souza Campos, Hiran Castagnino Kunert Filho, Helena Beatriz de Carvalho Ruthner Batista, Pedro Carnielli Júnior, Samuel Paulo Cibulski, Fernando Rosado Spilki, Paulo Michel Roehe, Ana Cláudia Franco,

Rabies epidemiology and control

A survey was carried out in search for bat coronaviruses in an urban maternity roost of about 500 specimens of two species of insectivorous bats, Molossus molossus and Tadarida brasiliensis, in Southern Brazil. Twenty-nine out of 150 pooled fecal samples tested positive by reverse transcription-PCR contained fragments of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene of coronavirus-related viruses. The sequences clustered along with bat alphacoronaviruses, forming a subcluster within this group. Our findings point to the need for risk assessment and continued surveillance of coronavirus infections of bats in Brazil.