Volume 23, Number 3—March 2017
Dispatch
Genetically Diverse Filoviruses in Rousettus and Eonycteris spp. Bats, China, 2009 and 2015
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 (%) |
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RT-PCR | Quantitative PCR | ELISA† |
Western blot† |
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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) |
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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).
1These authors contributed equally to this article.