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Partial molecular characterization of alphaherpesviruses isolated from tropical bats

¹ Unité de virologie, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, route de l'Institut Pasteur, BP 1274, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar
² Unité de virologie, Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, 5 boulevard Monivong, BP 983, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
³ Centro Colaborador da OMS para Referência e Pesquisa em Arbovírus, Instituto Evandro Chagas/SVS/MS, Av. Almirante Barroso, 492, 66093-020 Belém, Pará, Brazil
⁴ Centre Collaborateur OMS de Référence et de Recherche sur les arbovirus, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, 36 Avenue Pasteur, BP 220, Dakar, Senegal

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Jean-Marc Reynes
jmreynes{at}pasteur.mg

Herpesviruses have previously been isolated from African and South-American bats. Recently, herpesviruses detected from European insectivorous bats (family Vespertilionidae) were classified molecularly as betaherpesviruses and gammaherpesviruses. In the current study, we performed PCR analyses targeting the UL30 catalytic subunit region of the DNA polymerase gene of the African and South American herpesviruses and new Malagasy and Cambodian herpesviruses isolated from bats, especially frugivorous bats from the families Pteropodidae and Phyllostomidae. The sequences obtained from the amplified products indicated that these isolates belonged to the genus Simplexvirus of the subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae. These results extend the taxonomic range of bat herpesviruses with the description of four members in the subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae. Furthermore, these data confirm and extend the geographical distribution of herpesvirus in bats to three more continents (Africa, South America and Asia) and indicate the presence of these viruses in frugivorous bats of the families Pteropodidae and Phyllostomidae.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the sequences generated in this study are FJ040877–FJ040891.

Published online ahead of print on 23 October 2008 as DOI 10.1099/vir.0.2008/006825-0.

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