Non–rabies Lyssavirus human encephalitis from fruit bats: Australian bat Lyssavirus (pteropid Lyssavirus) infection

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samaratunga ◽  
Searle ◽  
Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Fruit Bats ◽  
Australian Bat Lyssavirus

The phylogenetic relationships of cynopterine fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae: Cynopterinae)

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 772-783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisca C. Almeida ◽  
Norberto P. Giannini ◽  
Rob DeSalle ◽  
Nancy B. Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Fruit Bats

Detection of novel polyomaviruses in fruit bats in Indonesia

2015 ◽  
Vol 160 (4) ◽  
pp. 1075-1082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shintaro Kobayashi ◽  
Michihito Sasaki ◽  
Ryo Nakao ◽  
Agus Setiyono ◽  
Ekowati Handharyani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fruit Bats

scholarly journals Comparative phylogeography of African fruit bats (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae) provide new insights into the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa, 2014–2016

2016 ◽  
Vol 339 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 517-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Hassanin ◽  
Nicolas Nesi ◽  
Julie Marin ◽  
Blaise Kadjo ◽  
Xavier Pourrut ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Ebola Virus Disease ◽  
Fruit Bats ◽  
Comparative Phylogeography

scholarly journals Detection of Latin American Strains of Histoplasma in a Murine Model by Use of a Commercially Available Antigen Test

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 802-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Allton ◽  
Robert G. Rivard ◽  
Patricia A. Connolly ◽  
Suzanne McCall ◽  
Michelle M. Durkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Murine Model ◽  
Fragment Length Polymorphism ◽  
Host Factors ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Fruit Bats ◽  
Antigen Test ◽  
The North ◽  
Disseminated Histoplasmosis ◽  
American Clade

ABSTRACT During a Histoplasma outbreak in a colony of fruit bats at a southern United States zoo, it was observed that although Histoplasma was recovered in culture from multiple sites at necropsy, none of the samples collected from those bats tested positive for Histoplasma antigen (HAg). Five of the Histoplasma isolates from the bats were subsequently identified as Latin American (LA) clade A, restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) class 6. These observations raised concern as to whether the commercially available HAg test could detect Histoplasma antigen not of the North American clade upon which the HAg test had been developed. To evaluate this concern, a murine model of disseminated histoplasmosis was established, and mice were infected with multiple LA Histoplasma isolates, including clinical isolates recovered from Brazilian AIDS patients (RFLP class 5 and class 6) and isolates recovered from the bats during the outbreak (RFLP class 6). Histoplasma antigen was detected in all infected mice in our experiments, even when Histoplasma was not recovered in culture. Because the currently available HAg test is able to detect Histoplasma antigen in mice infected with Latin American isolates, this suggests that bat host factors rather than differences among Histoplasma RFLP classes were responsible for the inability to detect HAg in infected bats.

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