Novel hantavirus identified in European bat species Nyctalus noctula

• Authors: STRAKOVÁ Petra; DUFKOVÁ Lucie; ŠIRMAROVÁ Jana; SALÁT Jiří; BARTONIČKA Tomáš; KLEMPA Boris; PFAFF Florian; HÖPER Dirk; HOFFMANN bernd; ULRICH Rainer; RŮŽEK Daniel
• Year of publication: 2017
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Infection, Genetics and Evolution
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2016.12.025
• Field: Zoology
• Keywords: Hantavirus; Bat; Phylogenetic analysis; Emerging virus; Bat-borne virus
• Description: Hantaviruses are emerging RNA viruses that cause human diseases predominantly in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Besides rodents, insectivores and bats serve as hantavirus reservoirs. We report the detection and genome characterization of a novel bat-borne hantavirus isolated from insectivorous common noctule bat. The newfound virus was tentatively named as Brno virus.