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Volume 31, Number 12—December 2025

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Bat Reovirus as Cause of Acute Respiratory Disease and Encephalitis in Humans, Bangladesh, 2022–2023

Sharmin Sultana1, Ariful Islam1, James Ng, Sunil Kumar Dubey, Manjur Hossain Khan, Cheng Guo, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman, Joel M. Montgomery, Syed Moinuddin Satter, Tahmina Shirin, W. Ian Lipkin, Lisa Hensley2, and Nischay Mishra2Comments to Author 
Author affiliation: Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Dhaka, Bangladesh (S. Sultana, A. Islam, M. Hossain Khan, T. Shirin); Gulbali Research Institute, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia (A. Islam); Center for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA (J. Ng, S. Kumar Dubey, C. Guo, W.I. Lipkin, N. Mishra); icddr,b, Dhaka (M.Z. Rahman, S. Moinuddin Satter); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (J.M. Montgomery); Zoonotic and Emerging Disease Research Unit, National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Manhattan, Kansas, USA (L. Hensley)

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Figure 1

Study locations and locations for related viruses from study of bat reovirus as cause of acute respiratory disease and encephalitis in humans, Bangladesh, 2022–2023. Inset shows Bangladesh with color-coded locations of patients (BDB040, BDB052, BDB047, BDB113, and BDB051) from whom we detected Pteropine orthoreovirus in archived throat swab samples. Larger map shows global locations from which related viruses have been detected in humans, bats, and monkeys.

Figure 1. Study locations and locations for related viruses from study of bat reovirus as cause of acute respiratory disease and encephalitis in humans, Bangladesh, 2022–2023. Inset shows Bangladesh with color-coded locations of patients (BDB040, BDB052, BDB047, BDB113, and BDB051) from whom we detected Pteropine orthoreovirus in archived throat swab samples. Larger map shows global locations from which related viruses have been detected in humans, bats, and monkeys.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These last authors contributed equally to this article.

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