Discovery of an ebolavirus-like filovirus in europe.

ABSTRACT: Filoviruses, amongst the most lethal of primate pathogens, have only been reported as natural infections in sub-Saharan Africa and the Philippines. Infections of bats with the ebolaviruses and marburgviruses do not appear to be associated with disease. Here we report identification in dead insectivorous bats of a genetically distinct filovirus, provisionally named Lloviu virus, after the site of detection, Cueva del Lloviu, in Spain.

SUBMITTER: Negredo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3197594 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature