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SUBMITTER: Du L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7087202 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Du Linfeng L Lu Zongji Z Fan Yu Y Meng Keyin K Jiang Yu Y Zhu Yan Y Wang Shumin S Gu Wanjun W Zou Xiaohuan X Tu Changchun C
Archives of virology 20100522 8
Nelson Bay orthoreovirus (NBV) is a species in the genus Orthoreovirus, family Reoviridae, containing 4, possibly 5, members. Here, we report a putative sixth member, Xi River virus (XRV), isolated from fruit bats collected in a location near the Xi River, Guangdong Province, China. This virus showed the same electron microscopic morphology as NBV, fusogenic CPE, and a 10-segmented double-strand RNA genome, as well as high sequence identity to NBV members. It is the first bat reovirus isolated i ...[more]