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Case Reports
. 2013 May;19(5):793-5.
doi: 10.3201/eid1905.121071.

Novel lyssavirus in bat, Spain

Nidia Aréchiga Ceballos  1 , Sonia Vázquez Morón, José M Berciano, Olga Nicolás, Carolina Aznar López, Javier Juste, Cristina Rodríguez Nevado, Alvaro Aguilar Setién, Juan E Echevarría
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Novel lyssavirus in bat, Spain

Nidia Aréchiga Ceballos et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 May.

Abstract

A new tentative lyssavirus, Lleida bat lyssavirus, was found in a bent-winged bat (Miniopterus schreibersii) in Spain. It does not belong to phylogroups I or II, and it seems to be more closely related to the West Causasian bat virus, and especially to the Ikoma lyssavirus.

Keywords: Lleida bat lyssavirus; Lyssavirus; Spain; bent-winged bat; rabies; viruses.

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Phylogenetic reconstruction based on the first 405 nt of the nucleoprotein gene, including all representative lyssaviruses. The tree was obtained by Bayesian inference, and the first 25% of trees were excluded from the analysis as burn-in. Node numbers indicate posterior probabilities. ARAV, Aravan virus; ABLV, Australian bat lyssavirus; BBLV, Bokeloh bat lyssavirus; DUVV, Duvenhage virus; EBLV-1 and EBLV-2, European bat lyssavirus types 1 and 2; IRKV, Irkut virus; KHUV, Khujand virus; LBV, Lagos bat virus (lineages A, B, C, and D); MOKV, Mokola virus; RABV, rabies virus; SHIBV, Shimoni bat virus; WCBV, West Caucasian bat virus; IKOV, Ikoma lyssavirus; LLEBV, Lleida bat lyssavirus (proposed). Scale bar indicates expected number of substitutions per site.
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