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SUBMITTER: Sumibcay L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3331809 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Virology journal 20120126
Recently identified hantaviruses harbored by shrews and moles (order Soricomorpha) suggest that other mammals having shared ancestry may serve as reservoirs. To investigate this possibility, archival tissues from 213 insectivorous bats (order Chiroptera) were analyzed for hantavirus RNA by RT-PCR. Following numerous failed attempts, hantavirus RNA was detected in ethanol-fixed liver tissue from two banana pipistrelles (Neoromicia nanus), captured near Mouyassué village in Côte d'Ivoire, West Afr ...[more]