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Editor, Senior Moderator
Zoonoses Public Health. 2014 May 17. doi: 10.1111/zph.12131. [Epub ahead of print]
No Virological Evidence for an Influenza A - like Virus in European Bats.
Fereidouni S1, Kwasnitschka L, Balkema Buschmann A, M?ller T, Freuling C, Schatz J, Pikula J, Bandouchova H, Hoffmann R, Ohlendorf B, Kerth G, Tong S, Donis R, Beer M, Harder T.
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Abstract
New members of the influenza A virus genus have been detected recently in bats from South America. By molecular investigations, using a generic real-time RT-PCR (RT-qPCR) that detects all previously known influenza A virus subtypes (H1-H16) and a newly developed RT-qPCR specific for the South American bat influenza-like virus of subtype H17, a total of 1571 samples obtained from 1369 individual bats of 26 species from Central Europe were examined. No evidence for the occurrence of such influenza viruses was found. Further attempts towards a more comprehensive evaluation of the role of bats in the ecology and epidemiology of influenza viruses should be based on more intense monitoring efforts. However, given the protected status of bats, not only in Europe, such activities need to be embedded into existing pathogen-monitoring programs.
? 2014 Blackwell Verlag GmbH.
KEYWORDS:
Influenza, bats, infectious disease, surveillance
PMID:
24837569
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24837569
No Virological Evidence for an Influenza A - like Virus in European Bats.
Fereidouni S1, Kwasnitschka L, Balkema Buschmann A, M?ller T, Freuling C, Schatz J, Pikula J, Bandouchova H, Hoffmann R, Ohlendorf B, Kerth G, Tong S, Donis R, Beer M, Harder T.
Author information
Abstract
New members of the influenza A virus genus have been detected recently in bats from South America. By molecular investigations, using a generic real-time RT-PCR (RT-qPCR) that detects all previously known influenza A virus subtypes (H1-H16) and a newly developed RT-qPCR specific for the South American bat influenza-like virus of subtype H17, a total of 1571 samples obtained from 1369 individual bats of 26 species from Central Europe were examined. No evidence for the occurrence of such influenza viruses was found. Further attempts towards a more comprehensive evaluation of the role of bats in the ecology and epidemiology of influenza viruses should be based on more intense monitoring efforts. However, given the protected status of bats, not only in Europe, such activities need to be embedded into existing pathogen-monitoring programs.
? 2014 Blackwell Verlag GmbH.
KEYWORDS:
Influenza, bats, infectious disease, surveillance
PMID:
24837569
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24837569