Detection of Bombali Virus in a Bat in Kyela, Tanzania

Overview

Journal Viruses

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2024 Aug 29

PMID 39205201

Authors

Ariane Dux

Sudi E Lwitiho

Ahidjo Ayouba

Caroline Rothemeier

Kevin Merkel

Sabrina Weiss

Guillaume Thaurignac

Angelika Lander

Leonce Kouadio

Kathrin Nowak

Victor Corman

Christian Drosten

Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann

Detlev H Kruger

Andreas Kurth

Sebastien Calvignac-Spencer

Martine Peeters

Nyanda E Ntinginya

Fabian H Leendertz

Chacha Mangu

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Abstract

Bombali virus (BOMV) is a novel Orthoebolavirus that has been detected in free-tailed bats in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Kenya, and Mozambique. We screened our collection of 349 free-tailed bat lungs collected in Côte d'Ivoire and Tanzania for BOMV RNA and tested 228 bat blood samples for BOMV antibodies. We did not detect BOMV-specific antibodies but found BOMV RNA in a bat from Tanzania, marking the first detection of an ebolavirus in this country. Our findings further expand the geographic range of BOMV and support ' role as a natural BOMV host.

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