Discovery of an Ebolavirus-like Filovirus in Europe

Overview

Journal PLoS Pathog

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2011 Nov 1

PMID 22039362

Citations 219

Authors

Ana Negredo

Gustavo Palacios

Sonia Vazquez-Moron

Felix Gonzalez

Hernan Dopazo

Francisca Molero

Javier Juste

Juan Quetglas

Nazir Savji

Maria de la Cruz Martinez

Jesus Enrique Herrera

Manuel Pizarro

Stephen K Hutchison

Juan E Echevarria

W Ian Lipkin

Antonio Tenorio

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Abstract

Filoviruses, amongst the most lethal of primate pathogens, have only been reported as natural infections in sub-Saharan Africa and the Philippines. Infections of bats with the ebolaviruses and marburgviruses do not appear to be associated with disease. Here we report identification in dead insectivorous bats of a genetically distinct filovirus, provisionally named Lloviu virus, after the site of detection, Cueva del Lloviu, in Spain.

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