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SUBMITTER: Mishra N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6457491 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mishra Nischay N Fagbo Shamsudeen F SF Alagaili Abdulaziz N AN Nitido Adam A Williams Simon H SH Ng James J Lee Bohyun B Durosinlorun Abdulkareem A Garcia Joel A JA Jain Komal K Kapoor Vishal V Epstein Jonathan H JH Briese Thomas T Memish Ziad A ZA Olival Kevin J KJ Lipkin W Ian WI
PloS one 20190410 4
Bats are implicated as natural reservoirs for a wide range of zoonotic viruses including SARS and MERS coronaviruses, Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, Hendra, Rabies and other lyssaviruses. Accordingly, many One Health surveillance and viral discovery programs have focused on bats. In this report we present viral metagenomic data from bats collected in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [KSA]. Unbiased high throughput sequencing of fecal samples from 72 bat individuals comprising four species; lesser mouse-taile ...[more]