Association of Batai Virus Infection and Encephalitis in Harbor Seals, Germany, 2016

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2018 Aug 21

PMID 30124416

Citations 13

Authors

Wendy K Jo

Vanessa M Pfankuche

Annika Lehmbecker

Byron Martina

Ana Rubio-Garcia

Stefanie Becker

Jochen Kruppa

Klaus Jung

Daniela Klotz

Julia Metzger

Martin Ludlow

Wolfgang Baumgartner

Erhard van der Vries

Albert Osterhaus

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Abstract

We isolated Batai virus from the brain of a euthanized, 26-year-old, captive harbor seal with meningoencephalomyelitis in Germany. We provide evidence that this orthobunyavirus can naturally infect the central nervous system of a mammal. The full-genome sequence showed differences from a previously reported virus isolate from a mosquito in Germany.

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