Volume 15, Number 9—September 2009
Research
Distant Relatives of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus and Close Relatives of Human Coronavirus 229E in Bats, Ghana
Susanne Pfefferle, Samuel Oppong, Jan Felix Drexler, Florian Gloza-Rausch, Anne Ipsen, Antje Seebens, Marcel A. Müller, Augustina Annan, Peter Vallo, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Thomas F. Kruppa, and Christian Drosten
Table 1
Overview of bats studied, Ghana
| Sampling site | Species | No. fecal samples | No. positive (group 1/group 2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoo Kumasi (6°42′2.0′′N, 1°37′29.9′′W) |
Eidolon helvum |
212* |
0 |
| KNUST Botanical Garden Kumasi (6°41′6.4′′N, 1°33′42.8′′W)† |
Pipistrellus nanulus | 1 | 0 |
| Glauconycteris beatrix |
1 |
0 |
|
| Lake Bosumtwi (6°32′22.3′′N, 1°24′41.5′′W) |
Chaerephon spp. | 6 | 0 |
| Nycteris hispida | 1 | 0 | |
| P. nanus | 5 | 0 | |
| P. deserti |
1 |
0 |
|
| Cave Kwamang (6°58′N, 1°16′W) |
Hipposideros caffer ruber | 40 | 10 (4/6) |
| H. abae |
13 |
0 |
|
| Cave Booyem A (7°43′24.9′′N, 1°59′16.5′′W) |
H. cf. ruber | 8 | 0 |
| Coleura afra |
12 |
0 |
|
| Cave Booyem B (7°43′25.7′′N, 1°59′33.5′′W) |
H. cf. ruber‡ | 11 | 2 (1/1) |
| H. abae | 3 | 0 | |
| Coleura afra |
21 |
0 |
|
| Total | 335 | 12 |
*These samples were collected without individual association to bats. Due to a low sampling frequency, it can be assumed that each sample was from an individual bat.
†Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
‡Two morphotypes were observed.
