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Volume 23, Number 3—March 2017
Dispatch

Genetically Diverse Filoviruses in Rousettus and Eonycteris spp. Bats, China, 2009 and 2015

Xing-Lou Yang1, Yun-Zhi Zhang1, Ren-Di Jiang1, Hua Guo, Wei Zhang, Bei Li, Ning Wang, Li Wang, Cecilia Waruhiu, Ji-Hua Zhou, Shi-Yue Li, Peter Daszak, Lin-Fa Wang, and Zheng-Li ShiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China (X.-L. Yang, R.-D. Jiang, H. Guo, W. Zhang, B. Li, N. Wang, L. Wang, C. Waruhiu, Z.-L. Shi); Dali University, Dali, China (Y.-Z. Zhang); University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (R.-D Jiang, H. Guo, N. Wang); Yunnan Institute of Endemic Diseases Control and Prevention, Dali (Y.-Z. Zhang, J.-H. Zhou); Wuhan University, Wuhan (S.-Y. Li); EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, USA (P. Daszak); Duke–NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore (L.-F. Wang)

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Table 1

Filovirus infection detected in bat samples by PCR, ELISA, and Western blot, Yunnan Province, China, 2009 and 2015*

Bat species, by year and month of collection/location No. positive/no. tested (%)
RT-PCR Quantitative PCR ELISA†
 Western blot†
ZEBOV RESTV ZEBOV RESTV
2009 Nov/Jinghong City
Hipposideros armiger 0/15 0/15 0/15 0/15 0/15 0/15
Rhinolophus monoceros 0/4 0/4 0/4 0/4 0/4 0/4
Ia io 0/3 0/3 0/3 0/3 0/3 0/3
Miniopterus fuscus 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1
Myotis ricketti 0/27 0/27 1/27 (3.7) 1/27 (3.7) 1/27 (3.7) 1/27 (3.7)
Eonycteris spelaea and Rousettus sp.
 10/43 (23.3)
 10/43 (23.3)
 5/43 (11.6)
 6/43 (13.9)
2/43 (4.6)
 2/43 (4.6)
2015 Dec/Mengla County
Aselliscus stoliczkanus 0/15 0/15 0/15 0/15 0/15 0/15
E. spelaea and Rousettus sp. 5/42 (11.9) 10/42 (23.8) 14/25 (56) 7/25 (28) 11/25 (44) 4/25 (16)

*EBOV, Zaire ebolavirus; RESTV, Reston virus.
†ELISA and Western blot results for samples collected in 2009 were from a previous study (14).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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