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Volume 27, Number 4—April 2021
Dispatch

Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Complex Alphavirus in Bats, French Guiana

Carlo Fischer1, Dominique Pontier1, Ondine Filippi-Codaccioni, Jean-Batiste Pons, Ignacio Postigo-Hidalgo, Jeanne Duhayer, Sebastian Brünink, and Jan Felix DrexlerComments 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 (C. Fischer, I. Postigo-Hidalgo, S. Brünink, J.F. Drexler); Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France (D. Pontier, O. Filippi-Codaccioni, J.-B. Pons, J. Duhayer); German Centre for Infection Research, Berlin, Germany (J.F. Drexler)

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Table 1

Bats tested for Tonate virus infection by PCR and PRNT, French Guiana*

Species Animals screened by RT-PCR
 PRNT screening, positive/tested
2010 2011 2012 2015 2016 2017 Total
Anoura geoffroyi
 48
 29
 74
 40
 50
 13
 254
 1/13
Artibeus lituratus 0 0 0 0 3 1 4 0
A. obscurus 0 0 0 0 2 8 10 0/10
A. planirostris
 0
 0
 0
 0
 21
 35
 56
 1/10
Carollia perspicillata 3 6 14 6 97 119 245 1/17
Cynomops planirostris 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0
Dermanura cinerea 0 0 0 0 9 16 25 0
Desmodus rotundus 1 1 5 13 0 2 22 1/13
Lonchorhina inusitata
 0
 0
 0
 0
 3
 3
 6
 0
Molossus molossus 0 0 0 0 56 35 91 0/20
M. rufus
 0
 0
 0
 0
 9
 1
 10
 0
Noctilio albiventris 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 0
N. leporinus
 0
 0
 0
 0
 1
 25
 26
 0/20
Phyllostomus latifolius 5 1 2 1 0 0 9 0
P. hastatus
 0
 0
 0
 20
 16
 30
 66
 0
Platyrrhinus brachycephalus 0 0 0 0 3 8 11 0
P. fusciventris 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 0
P. incarum
 0
 0
 0
 0
 3
 1
 4
 0
Pteronotus gymnonotus 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 0
Pteronotus sp.
 61
 79
 33
 119
 85
 81
 458
 0/45
Sturnira lilium 0 0 0 0 6 20 26 0/8
S. tildae
 0
 0
 0
 0
 17
 8
 25
 0
Tonatia saurophila 1 0 0 0 0 3 4 0
Trachops cirrhosus 2 1 0 0 6 2 11 0/11
Uroderma bilobatum
 0
 0
 0
 0
 2
 4
 6
 0
Total 121 117 128 199 391 442 1398 4/167

*PCR-positive bat species and sample are highlighted in bold. was conducted using a screening dilution of 1:50 only because sample volumes were limited. PRNT, plaque reduction neutralization test; RT-PCR, reverse transcription PCR.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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