title: Distinct lineage of vesiculovirus from big brown bats, United States.
abstract: We identified a novel rhabdovirus, American bat vesiculovirus, from postmortem tissue samples from 120 rabies-negative big brown bats with a history of human contact. Five percent of the tested bats were infected with this virus. The extent of zoonotic exposure and possible health effects in humans from this virus are unknown.
authors.forename: Terry Fei Fan
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.forename: Cindy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Driscoll
authors.forename: Maria Paz
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Carlos
authors.forename: Algernon
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prioleau
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schmieder
authors.forename: Bhakti
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dwivedi
authors.forename: Jakk
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Yunhee
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cha
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Head
authors.forename: Mya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Breitbart
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Delwart
mesh_terms: D000820:Animal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000818:Animals; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000821:virology*; D005260:Female; D016679:Genome, Viral; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D054243:Vesicular Stomatitis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018116:Vesiculovirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*
keywords: Eptesicus fuscus; Maryland; North America; Rhabdoviridae; United States; bats; big brown bats; rabies; vesiculovirus; viral metagenomic; virus discovery; viruses