Detection of possible spillover of a novel hantavirus in a Natal mastomys from Guinea

• DOI: 10.1007/s11262-019-01709-4
• Publication Date: 2019-10-25T19:55:01Z
• Authors: Léonce Kouadio; Kathrin Nowak; Emmanuel Couacy-H...; Chantal Akoua-Koffi; Ariane Düx; Fee Zimmermann; Bernard K. Allali; Laye Kourouma; Karim Bangoura; Sophie Koendgen; Peter T. Witkowski; Detlev H. Krüger; Sébastien Calvign...; Fabian H. Leendertz
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; Orthohantavirus; Hantavirus Infections; bats; bat; Biodiversity; Rodent Diseases; 03 medical and health sciences; Chiroptera; Mammalia; Animals; Animalia; Guinea; Murinae; Chordata; Phylogeny

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) To date, only two rodent-borne hantaviruses have been detected in sub-Saharan Africa. Here, we report the detection of a yet unknown hantavirus in a Natal mastomys (Mastomys natalensis) in Méliandou, Guinea, in 2014. The phylogenetic placement of this virus suggests that it might represent a cross-order spillover event from an unknown bat or eulipotyphlan host.