Identification of GBV-D, a Novel GB-like Flavivirus from Old World Frugivorous Bats (Pteropus Giganteus) in Bangladesh

Overview

Journal PLoS Pathog

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2010 Jul 10

PMID 20617167

Citations 49

Authors

Jonathan H Epstein

Phenix-Lan Quan

Thomas Briese

Craig Street

Omar Jabado

Sean Conlan

Shahneaz Ali Khan

Dawn Verdugo

M Jahangir Hossain

Stephen K Hutchison

Michael Egholm

Stephen P Luby

Peter Daszak

W Ian Lipkin

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Abstract

Bats are reservoirs for a wide range of zoonotic agents including lyssa-, henipah-, SARS-like corona-, Marburg-, Ebola-, and astroviruses. In an effort to survey for the presence of other infectious agents, known and unknown, we screened sera from 16 Pteropus giganteus bats from Faridpur, Bangladesh, using high-throughput pyrosequencing. Sequence analyses indicated the presence of a previously undescribed virus that has approximately 50% identity at the amino acid level to GB virus A and C (GBV-A and -C). Viral nucleic acid was present in 5 of 98 sera (5%) from a single colony of free-ranging bats. Infection was not associated with evidence of hepatitis or hepatic dysfunction. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that this first GBV-like flavivirus reported in bats constitutes a distinct species within the Flaviviridae family and is ancestral to the GBV-A and -C virus clades.

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