A viral metagenomic survey identifies known and novel mammalian viruses in bats from Saudi Arabia.

Bats are implicated as natural reservoirs for a wide range of zoonotic viruses including SARS and MERS coronaviruses, Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, Hendra, Rabies and other lyssaviruses. Accordingly, many One Health surveillance and viral discovery programs have focused on bats. In this report we present v...

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Main Authors: Nischay Mishra, Shamsudeen F Fagbo, Abdulaziz N Alagaili, Adam Nitido, Simon H Williams, James Ng, Bohyun Lee, Abdulkareem Durosinlorun, Joel A Garcia, Komal Jain, Vishal Kapoor, Jonathan H Epstein, Thomas Briese, Ziad A Memish, Kevin J Olival, W Ian Lipkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214227