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Volume 25, Number 2—February 2019
Dispatch

Bat Influenza A(HL18NL11) Virus in Fruit Bats, Brazil

Angélica Cristine Almeida Campos, Luiz Gustavo Bentim Góes, Andres Moreira-Soto, Cristiano de Carvalho, Guilherme Ambar, Anna-Lena Sander, Carlo Fischer, Adriana Ruckert da Rosa, Debora Cardoso de Oliveira, Ana Paula G. Kataoka, Wagner André Pedro, Luzia Fátima A. Martorelli, Luzia Helena Queiroz, Ariovaldo P. Cruz-Neto, Edison Luiz Durigon1, and Jan Felix Drexler1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Virology, Berlin, Germany (A.C.A. Campos, L.G.B. Góes, A. Moreira-Soto, A.-L. Sander, C. Fischer, J.F. Drexler); Universidade de São Paulo-USP, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas-ICB, São Paulo, Brazil (A.C.A. Campos, L.G.B. Góes, E.L. Durigon); Universidade Estadual Paulista Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária de Araçatuba, Araçatuba, Brazil (C. de Carvalho, W.A. Pedro, L.H. Queiroz); Universidade Estadual Paulista, Instituto de Biociências, Rio Claro, Brazil (G. Ambar, A.P. Cruz-Neto); Centro de Controle de Zoonoses, São Paulo (A.R. da Rosa, D.C. de Oliveira, L.F.A. Martorelli, A.P.G. Kataoka); German Centre for Infection Research, Germany (J.F. Drexler); Martsinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology, Tropical and Vector-Borne Diseases, Sechenov University, Moscow, Russia (J.F. Drexler)

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Table 1

Bat species screened for influenza A virus, Brazil, 2010–2014*

Species
 Family
 No. samples
 No. (%) PCR positive
Sampling site
 Sampling years
Artibeus fimbriatus Phyllostomidae 3 0 Iguaçu 2012
Artibeus lituratus Phyllostomidae 129 2 (1.6) Iguaçu, Central Paraná state, São Paulo cities 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Artibeus obscurus Phyllostomidae 1 0 São Paulo cities 2013
Artibeus planirostris Phyllostomidae 4 0 Iguaçu, Central Paraná state, São Paulo cities 2010, 2012, 2014
Carollia perspicillata Phyllostomidae 44 0 Iguaçu, Central Paraná state 2010–2012
Cynomops planirostris Molossidae 6 0 São Paulo cities 2014
Desmodus rotundus Phyllostomidae 15 0 São Paulo cities 2014
Eptesicus furinalis Vespertilionidae 8 0 São Paulo cities 2013–2015
Eumops auripendulus Molossidae 1 0 São Paulo cities 2014
Eumops glaucinus Molossidae 44 0 São Paulo cities 2013–2015
Eumops perotis Molossidae 8 0 São Paulo cities 2014–2015
Glossophaga soricina Phyllostomidae 27 0 São Paulo cities 2013–2015
Lasiurus cinereus Vespertilionidae 1 0 São Paulo cities 2013
Lasiurus ega Vespertilionidae 1 0 São Paulo cities 2014
Molossus molossus Molossidae 115 0 São Paulo cities 2013–2015
Molossus rufus Molossidae 63 0 São Paulo cities 2013–2015
Myotis nigricans Vespertilionidae 13 0 São Paulo cities 2013–2015
Myotis riparius Vespertilionidae 1 0 São Paulo cities 2013
Nyctinomops laticaudatus Molossidae 3 0 São Paulo cities 2014–2015
Nyctinomops macrotis Molossidae 1 0 São Paulo cities 2014
Phyllostomus discolor Phyllostomidae 2 0 São Paulo cities 2014
Platyrrhinus lineatus Phyllostomidae 4 0 São Paulo cities 2014
Promops nasutus Molossidae 1 0 São Paulo cities 2014
Sturnira lilium Phyllostomidae 28 0 Iguaçu, Central Paraná state 2010–2012
Tadarida brasiliensis Molossidae 9 0 São Paulo cities 2014
Vampyressa pusila
 Phyllostomidae
 1
 0
 Central Paraná state
 2012
Total 533 2 (0.4)

*Sampling sites were Parque Nacional do Iguaçu, Atlantic rainforest in western Paraná (Iguaçu); 26 cities across São Paulo state (São Paulo cities); and forest fragment in Paraná state (Central Paraná state). Bold indicates the site and year in which bats were captured that tested positive for influenza A virus.

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1These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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