title: Novel hantavirus identified in European bat species Nyctalus noctula.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Virology, Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic; Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic; Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany.
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Straková
authors.affiliation: Department of Virology, Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Lucie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dufkova
authors.affiliation: Department of Virology, Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Širmarová
authors.affiliation: Department of Virology, Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jiří
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Salát
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Tomáš
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bartonička
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Research Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia; Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Klempa
authors.affiliation: Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pfaff
authors.affiliation: Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany.
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Höper
authors.affiliation: Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany.
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hoffmann
authors.affiliation: Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany.
authors.forename: Rainer G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Ulrich
authors.affiliation: Department of Virology, Veterinary Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic; Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic. Electronic address: ruzekd@paru.cas.cz.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Růžek
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000821:virology*; D018153:Czech Republic; D004197:Disease Reservoirs / Q000821:virology; D005814:Genes, Viral; D006476:Orthohantavirus / Q000235:genetics*; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; D058889:Molecular Typing; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
keywords: Bat; Bat-borne virus; Emerging virus; Hantavirus; Phylogenetic analysis