Volume 19, Number 11—November 2013
Dispatch
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Bats, Saudi Arabia
Ziad A. Memish, Nischay Mishra, Kevin J. Olival, Shamsudeen F. Fagbo, Vishal Kapoor, Jonathan H. Epstein, Rafat AlHakeem, Abdulkareem Durosinloun, Mushabab Al Asmari, Ariful Islam, Amit Kapoor, Thomas Briese, Peter Daszak, Abdullah A. Al Rabeeah, and W. Ian Lipkin
Table 2
CoVs detected in bats, Saudi Arabia*
| Bat family, genus, species |
Location |
No. Bats |
No. samples tested (no. positive) |
Total samples (n = 1,003) |
Total positive samples (n = 227) (closely related CoVs)† |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Throat swab |
Fecal pellets |
Urine |
Serum |
Roost feces |
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| October 2012 |
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| Emballonuridae | |||||||||
| Taphozous perforatus | Bisha ruins | 29 | 29 (0) | 25 (2) | 8 (0) | 22 | 10 (1) | 94 | 1 β-Cov (1 MERS novel CoV) and 2 α-CoVs (1 bovine respiratory CoV, 1 Kenya bat CoV BtKY86) |
| Pteropodidae | |||||||||
| Eidolon helvum | Bisha town center | 25 | 25 (0) | 25 (5) | 13 (0) | 19 | – | 82 | 1 β-CoV (1 Eidolon bat CoV-HKU1) and 4 α-CoVs (4 Kenya bat CoV BtKY86) |
| Rousettus aegyptiacus | Bisha town center | 3 | 3 (0) | 3 (0) | 1 (0) | 2 | – | 9 | – |
| Rhinopomatidae | |||||||||
| Rhinopoma hardwickii | Naqi and Old Naqi | 36 | 36 (0) | 35 (0) | 4 (0) | – | 15 (0) | 90 | – |
| Rhinopoma microphyllum | Old Naqi | 1 | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | – | – | – | 2 | – |
| Vespertilionidae | |||||||||
| Eptesicus bottae | Bisha ruins | 1 | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | – | 32 (0) | 35 | – |
| Pipistrellus kuhlii |
Bisha ruins |
1 |
1 (0) |
1 (0) |
– |
– |
– |
2 |
– |
| April 2013 |
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| Rhinopomatidae | |||||||||
| Rhinopoma hardwickii | Greater Bisha area | – | – | – | – | – | 209 (93) | 209 | 2 β-CoVs (2 canine respiratory CoVs) and 91α-CoVs (5 canine CoVs, 2 Miniopterus bat CoVs, 84 Chaerephon bat CoV) |
| Taphozous perforatus | Bisha ruins | – | – | – | – | – | 203 (0) | 203 | – |
| Vespertilionidae | |||||||||
| Pipistrellus kuhlii | Greater Unaizah area | 9 | 9 (0) | – | – | –- | 263 (126) | 277 | 126 α-CoVs (69 alphaCoV P.kuh-Spain, 3 canine CoVs, 37 bat CoV P.pyg/Germany, 1 human CoV NL63, 2 Rousettus bat CoV HKU10, 11 Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, 2 Cardioderma bat CoVs, 1 Hipposideros bat CoV HKU10) |
| Greater Riyadh area | 5 | 5 (0) | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
*CoV, coronavirus; MERS, Middle East respiratory syndrome; –, not applicable.
†Based on BLASTn (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/Blast.cgi).
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