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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 2

Comparison of influenza A(HL18NL11) strain found in bats in Brazil with prototype strains from Peru

Gene
 Nucleotide sequence identity
 Amino acid exchange site
A/great fruit-eating bat/Brazil/2301/2012 (HL18NL11a)
 A/great fruit-eating bat/Brazil/2344/2012 (HL18NL11b)
PB2
 93.6%
 V76I, R471K, T473N, V478I, I559V, R574K, S631N
 V76I, V203I, R471K, T473N, V478I, I559V, R574K, S631N
PB1
 93.7%
 V54I, T56V
 V54I, T56V, R334K
PA
 94.4%
 T70A, R116K, D158N, V231I, T254S, I552V, R711G
 T70A, R116K, D158N, V231I, T254S, I552V, R711G
HL
 96.0%
 N167T, F251L
 N167T, F251L
NP
 96.8%–96.9%
 N20T, K350R, L357M, I380L, I387V
 N20T, K350R, L357M, I380L, I387V, G484S
NL
 93.5%
 I11V, I15L, V82I, V200I, L254I, A264T, V284I, D332E, V378I, G382E
 I11V, I15L, V82I, V191I, V200I, L254I, A264T, V284I, D332E, V378I, G382E
M
 95.4%
 None
 None
NS1
 94.4%
 R57K
 R57K
*Bold indicates amino acid exchanges occurring in only 1 of the 2 Brazil strains compared to the Peru prototype strain. HA, hemagglutinin; HL, HA-like; M, matrix; NA, neuraminidase; NL, neuraminidase-like; NS, nonstructural protein; NP, nucleoprotein; PA, polymerase acidic; PB, polymerase basic.

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1These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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