Novel Lyssavirus in Bat, Spain

Nidia Aréchiga-Ceballos, Sonia Vázquez‐Morón, José M. Berciano, Olga Nicolás, C. López, Javier Juste, Cristina Rodríguez Nevado, Álvaro Aguilar‐Setién, Juan E. Echevarrı́a

Emerging infectious diseases · 2013 · 165 citations · 15 references

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A new tentative lyssavirus, Lleida bat lyssavirus, was found in a bent-winged bat (Miniopterus schreibersii) in Spain. It does not belong to phylogroups I or II, and it seems to be more closely related to the West Causasian bat virus, and especially to the Ikoma lyssavirus.

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