title: Metagenomic study of the viruses of African straw-coloured fruit bats: detection of a chiropteran poxvirus and isolation of a novel adenovirus.
abstract: Viral emergence as a result of zoonotic transmission constitutes a continuous public health threat. Emerging viruses such as SARS coronavirus, hantaviruses and henipaviruses have wildlife reservoirs. Characterising the viruses of candidate reservoir species in geographical hot spots for viral emergence is a sensible approach to develop tools to predict, prevent, or contain emergence events. Here, we explore the viruses of Eidolon helvum, an Old World fruit bat species widely distributed in Africa that lives in close proximity to humans. We identified a great abundance and diversity of novel herpes and papillomaviruses, described the isolation of a novel adenovirus, and detected, for the first time, sequences of a chiropteran poxvirus closely related with Molluscum contagiosum. In sum, E. helvum display a wide variety of mammalian viruses, some of them genetically similar to known human pathogens, highlighting the possibility of zoonotic transmission.
authors.affiliation: University of Cambridge, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Rd, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 0ES, United Kingdom. kf281@cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Kate S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Baker
authors.forename: Richard M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Leggett
authors.forename: Nicholas H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Bexfield
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alston
authors.forename: Gordon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Daly
authors.forename: Shawn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Todd
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tachedjian
authors.forename: Clare E G
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Holmes
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Crameri
authors.forename: Lin-Fa
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jonathan L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Heeney
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Suu-Ire
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kellam
authors.forename: Andrew A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Cunningham
authors.forename: James L N
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Caccamo
authors.forename: Pablo R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Murcia
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000821:virology*; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D054892:Metagenome; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014780:Viruses / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*
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