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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 2

Virus tropism and quantification in different tissues of Eonycteris spelaea and Rousettus sp. bats, China, 2009 and 2015

Sample no. Species Sex Primer group* Positive organs (viral genome copies/mg tissue or viral genome copies/μL blood)
2162 E. spelaea M 3 Lung (119)
2176 Rousettus sp. M 2 Lung (2,103)
2180 Rousettus sp. F 2 Lung (42)
2181 Rousettus sp. M 2 Lung (202)
2187 Rousettus sp. F 1 Lung (46)
2188 Rousettus sp. F 1 Lung (43), liver (400), kidney (42)
2190 Rousettus sp. M 2 Lung (195)
2196 Rousettus sp. F 1 Lung (123)
2199 Rousettus sp. F 1 Lung (74)
2202 Rousettus sp. F 1 Lung (864), liver (368), kidney (342), intestine (254), heart (807), blood (1)
9428 Rousettus sp. F 2 Lung (156)
9434 Rousettus sp. F 1 Lung (554), spleen (3,014), kidney (380), heart (320), intestine (2751)
9435 Rousettus sp. F 2 Lung (127)
9442 E. spelaea M 2 Lung (180), spleen (88)
9445 Rousettus sp. M 1 Lung (143)
9447 Rousettus sp. F 2 Lung (132), liver (154), spleen (661)
9447 Rousettus sp. F 1 Lung (106,606), liver (220,051), spleen (523,582), kidney (41,653), brain (4,885), heart (17,982), intestine (11,788), blood (485)
9454 Rousettus sp. M 1 Lung (448)
9457 E. spelaea M 1 Lung (52)
9459 Rousettus sp. F 2 Lung (182)
9463 E. spelaea M 2 Lung (114)

*These represent primers and probes designed based on partial sequences of the virus L gene obtained in this study. Sequence information is provided in the online Technical Appendix (https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/EID/article/23/3/16-1119-Techapp1.pdf).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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