Paramyxovirus Diversity Within One Population of Bats in Sri Lanka

Overview

Journal Pathogens

Date 2022 Apr 23

PMID 35456109

Authors

Therese Muzeniek

Thejanee Perera

Sahan Siriwardana

Fatimanur Bayram

Dilara Bas

Mizgin Oruc

Beate Becker-Ziaja

Inoka Perera

Jagathpriya Weerasena

Shiroma Handunnetti

Franziska Schwarz

Gayani Premawansa

Sunil Premawansa

Wipula Yapa

Andreas Nitsche

Claudia Kohl

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Abstract

Bats are known as typical reservoirs for a number of viruses, including viruses of the family Paramyxoviridae. Representatives of the subfamily Orthoparamyxovirinae are distributed worldwide and can cause mild to fatal diseases when infecting humans. The research on Paramyxoviruses (PMVs) from different bat hosts all over the world aims to understand the diversity, evolution and distribution of these viruses and to assess their zoonotic potential. A high number of yet unclassified PMVs from bats are recorded. In our study, we investigated bat species from the families Rhinolophidae, Hipposiderae, Pteropodidae and Miniopteridae that are roosting sympatrically in the Wavul Galge cave (Koslanda, Sri Lanka). The sampling at three time points (March and July 2018; January 2019) and screening for PMVs with a generic PCR show the presence of different novel PMVs in 10 urine samples collected from . Sequence analysis revealed a high similarity of the novel strains among each other and to other unclassified PMVs collected from bats. In this study, we present the first detection of PMVs in Sri Lanka and the presence of PMVs in the bat species for the first time.

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