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SUBMITTER: Petzold J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6684602 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20190806 1
Recently, the zoonotic capacity of the newly discovered variegated squirrel bornavirus 1 (VSBV-1) was confirmed in humans with a lethal encephalitis. Transmission to humans occurred by variegated and Prevost's squirrels as presumed reservoir hosts but possible ways of virus shedding and the route of infection still need to be elucidated. Thus, the tissue distribution of VSBV-1 antigen and RNA was investigated in detail via immunohistochemistry (IHC) in six variegated and eight Prevost's squirrel ...[more]