Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Isolation of Lagos Bat Virus from Water Mongoose

Wanda Markotter*, Ivan Kuzmin†, Charles E. Rupprecht†, Jenny Randles‡, Claude T. Sabeta§, Alexander I. Wandeler¶, and Louis H. Nel*

Author affiliations: *University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ‡Allerton Veterinary Laboratory, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; §Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa; ¶Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Nepean, Ontario, Canada

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Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree comparing 893 bp of the cytochrome b region of Herpestidae family sequences available in GenBank. Sequence obtained from the Lagos bat virus–infected mongoose (Mongoose2004) is 98% identical to the known cytochrome b sequences of Atilax paludinosus (water mongoose). GenBank accession numbers are indicated on the phylogenetic tree, and bootstrap values were determined with 1,000 replicates.

Figure 3. Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree comparing 893 bp of the cytochrome b region of Herpestidae family sequences available in GenBank. Sequence obtained from the Lagos bat virus–infected mongoose (Mongoose2004) is 98% identical to the known cytochrome b sequences of Atilax paludinosus (water mongoose). GenBank accession numbers are indicated on the phylogenetic tree, and bootstrap values were determined with 1,000 replicates.

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