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. 2016 Oct;97(10):2488-2493.
doi: 10.1099/jgv.0.000591. Epub 2016 Aug 26.

Multi-reassortant G3P[3] group A rotavirus in a horseshoe bat in Zambia

Michihito Sasaki  1 , Yasuko Orba  1 , Satoko Sasaki  1 , Gabriel Gonzalez  2 , Akihiro Ishii  3 , Bernard M Hang'ombe  4 , Aaron S Mweene  5 , Kimihito Ito  2   6 , Hirofumi Sawa  7   6   1
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Multi-reassortant G3P[3] group A rotavirus in a horseshoe bat in Zambia

Michihito Sasaki et al. J Gen Virol. 2016 Oct.
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Abstract

Group A rotavirus is a major cause of diarrhoea in humans, especially in young children. Bats also harbour group A rotaviruses, but the genetic backgrounds of bat rotavirus strains are usually distinct from those of human rotavirus strains. We identified a new strain of group A rotavirus in the intestinal contents of a horseshoe bat in Zambia. Whole genome sequencing revealed that the identified virus, named RVA/Bat-wt/ZMB/LUS12-14/2012/G3P[3], possessed the genotype constellation G3-P[3]-I3-R2-C2-M3-A9-N2-T3-E2-H3. Several genome segments of LUS12-14 were highly similar to those of group A rotaviruses identified from humans, cows and antelopes, indicating interspecies transmission of rotaviruses between bats and other mammals with possible multiple genomic reassortment events.

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