Discovery of an ebolavirus-like filovirus in europe.
Filoviruses, amongst the most lethal of primate pathogens, have only been reported as natural infections in sub-Saharan Africa and the Philippines. Infections of bats with the ebolaviruses and marburgviruses do not appear to be associated with disease. Here we report identification in dead insectivorous bats of a genetically distinct filovirus, provisionally named Lloviu virus, after the site of detection, Cueva del Lloviu, in Spain.
National Center of Microbiology, (ISCIII), Madrid, Spain.
Ana
A
Negredo
Gustavo
G
Palacios
Sonia
S
Vázquez-Morón
Félix
F
González
Hernán
H
Dopazo
Francisca
F
Molero
Javier
J
Juste
Juan
J
Quetglas
Nazir
N
Savji
Maria
M
de la Cruz Martínez
Jesus Enrique
JE
Herrera
Manuel
M
Pizarro
Stephen K
SK
Hutchison
Juan E
JE
Echevarría
W Ian
WI
Lipkin
Antonio
A
Tenorio
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