Novel coronaviruses, astroviruses, adenoviruses and circoviruses in insectivorous bats from northern China.

ABSTRACT: Bats are considered as the reservoirs of several emerging infectious disease, and novel viruses are continually found in bats all around the world. Studies conducted in southern China found that bats carried a variety of viruses. However, few studies have been conducted on bats in northern China, which harbours a diversity of endemic insectivorous bats. It is important to understand the prevalence and diversity of viruses circulating in bats in northern China. In this study, a total of 145 insectivorous bats representing six species were collected from northern China and screened with degenerate primers for viruses belonging to six families, including coronaviruses, astroviruses, hantaviruses, paramyxoviruses, adenoviruses and circoviruses. Our study found that four of the viruses screened

SUBMITTER: Han HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7165899 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature