New alphacoronavirus in Mystacina tuberculata bats, New Zealand.

ABSTRACT: Because of recent interest in bats as reservoirs of emerging diseases, we investigated the presence of viruses in Mystacina tuberculata bats in New Zealand. A novel alphacoronavirus sequence was detected in guano from roosts of M. tuberculata bats in pristine indigenous forest on a remote offshore island (Codfish Island).

SUBMITTER: Hall RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3966383 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature