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Volume 28, Number 12—December 2022
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Highly Diverse Arenaviruses in Neotropical Bats, Brazil

Luiz Gustavo Bentim Góes, Carlo Fischer, Angélica Cristine Almeida Campos, Cristiano de Carvalho, Andrés Moreira-Soto, Guilherme Ambar, Adriana Ruckert da Rosa, Debora Cardoso de Oliveira, Wendy Karen Jo, Ariovaldo P. Cruz-Neto, Wagner André Pedro, Luzia Helena Queiroz, Paola Minoprio, Edison L. Durigon, and Jan Felix DrexlerComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany (L.G.B. Góes, C. Fischer, A.C.A. Campos, A. Moreira-Soto; W.K. Jo, J.F. Drexler); Scientific Platform Pasteur-USP, São Paulo, Brazil (L.G.B. Góes, A.C.A. Campos, P. Minoprio); Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (L.G.B. Góes, A.C.A. Campos, E.L. Durigon); Universidade Estadual Paulista, Araçatuba, Brazil (C. de Carvalho, W.A. Pedro, L.H. Queiroz); Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brazil (G. Ambar, A.P. Cruz-Neto); Centro de Controle de Zoonooses, São Paulo (A. Ruckert da Rosa, D. Cardoso de Oliveira); German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Berlin (W.K. Jo, J.F. Drexler)

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Table 2

Collection sites and arenavirus RNA concentrations in different organs from bats in study of highly diverse arenaviruses in neotropical bats, Brazil*

Sample no. Bat species† Sex Collection site No. RNA copies/mg tissue
Spleen Lung Intestine Liver Kidney
Br56 Artibeus lituratus M Valparaiso 5.54 × 102 7.24 × 102 NA NA NA
Br57 A. lituratus M Valparaiso NA 3.14 × 102 NA NA NA
Br58 A. lituratus M Valparaiso 2.15 × 106 6.13 × 106 NA NA NA
Br59 A. lituratus M Valparais NA 2.10 × 102 NA NA NA
A354
 A. planirostris
 M
 Birigui
 1.09 ×105
 5.02 × 104
 4.73 × 105
 9.68 × 103
 6.01 × 103
Br61 Carollia perspicillata F Araçatuba 4.73 × 104 1.17 × 103 NA NA NA
Br62 C. perspicillata F Araçatuba 1.99 × 107 6.96 × 107 NA NA NA
Br63 C. perspicillata F Araçatuba 2.71 × 102 8.61 × 10° NA NA NA
Br65 C. perspicillata M Araçatuba 2.23 × 101 2.88 × 102 NA NA NA
Br68 C. perspicillata F Araçatuba 2.35 × 101 Neg NA NA NA
Br69 C. perspicillata M Araçatuba 5.95 × 107 1.99 × 106 NA NA NA
Br70 C. perspicillata M Araçatuba 8.20 × 107 1.85 × 105 NA NA NA
Br71 C. perspicillata F Araçatuba 5.37 × 103 5.38 × 102 NA NA NA
Br72 C. perspicillata M Araçatuba 4.70 × 102 6.11 × 101 NA NA NA
Br74 C. perspicillata M Araçatuba 3.54 × 105 8.84 × 106 NA NA NA
Br76 C. perspicillata M Araçatuba 1.18 × 106 1.52 × 107 NA NA NA
Br77 C. perspicillata F Araçatuba Neg 1.81 × 102 NA NA NA

*Numbers in bold are samples used in arenavirus isolation attempts. NA, tissue not available; Neg, negative †Samples were collected from Artibeus lituratus bats in forest areas of Valparaiso in 2007, A. planirostris bat in an urban area of Birigui in 2011, and Carollia perspicillata bats in forest areas of Araçatuba in 2007.

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