Serological evidence of exposure to filoviruses and henipaviruses in wildlife, Malaysia

Purpose: PCR and serological-based approaches have been used to identify henipavirus and filovirus (e.g. Nipah virus, Ebola virus) exposure or infection in bat populations in Bangladesh, China, and Southeast Asia. Our understanding of the diversity of these viruses in bat reservoirs, and the frequency of spillover to other animals or people, is extremely limited. We hypothesized that henipaviruses and filoviruses were circulating within multiple bat reservoirs and that spillover of these viruses to non-human primate populations has occurred in Malaysia.
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: 03.011 Source Type: research