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Volume 26, Number 12—December 2020
Dispatch

Shedding of Marburg Virus in Naturally Infected Egyptian Rousette Bats, South Africa, 2017

Janusz T. PawęskaComments to Author , Nadia Storm, Wanda Markotter, Nicholas Di Paola, Michael R. Wiley, Gustavo Palacios, and Petrus Jansen van Vuren
Author affiliations: National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa (J.T. Pawęska, N. Storm, P. Jansen van Vuren); Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (N. Storm); University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa (J.T. Pawęska, W. Markotter); University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA (N. Di Paola, M.R. Wiley, G. Palacios); US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, Maryland, USA (N. Di Paola, M.R. Wiley, G. Palacios); Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation–Health and Biosecurity, Geelong, Victoria, Australia (P. Jansen van Vuren)

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Table 2

Marburgvirus seroconversion in 6 of 18 Egyptian rousette bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) recaptured at Matlapitsi Cave, Limpopo Province, South Africa, February 2017–September 2017*

Bat ID First capture
 Recapture
iELISA, %† Capture date iELISA, %† Capture date
SMB676 2.2 2016 Apr 23.3 2017 Feb
SMB797 12.4 2016 Jun 23.7 2017 Apr
SMA780 0.7 2014 Jul 61.7 2017 Sep
SM906 15.2 2013 Sep 202.4 2017 Sep
SMB160 2.5 2015 Mar 51.3 2017 Sep

SMB978

11.1

2016 Nov

142.2

2017 Sep

*Recaptured bats were identified by a previously applied unique tattoo number. iELISA, indirect ELISA.
†Percent positivity of the internal positive control serum in I-ELISA calculated as (average optical density of the test serum replicates/average optical density of the positive control serum replicates) × 100; cutoff percent positivity of iELISA = 16.78% (7).

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