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Volume 32, Number 7—July 2026

Dispatch

Nipah Virus Shedding in Urine from Fruit Bats, Sri Lanka, 2018–2019

Claudia Kohl1Comments to Author , Sahan Siriwardana1, Therese Muzeniek, Thejanee Perera, Dilara Bas, Mizgin Öruc, Annika Brinkmann, Beate Becker-Ziaja, Franziska Schwarz, Hamsananthy Jeevatharan, Jagathpriya Weerasena, Shiroma Handunnetti, Inoka C. Perera, Gayani Premawansa, Sunil Premawansa, Wipula Yapa, and Andreas Nitsche
Author affiliation: Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany (C. Kohl, T. Muzeniek, T. Perera, D. Bas, M. Öruc, A. Brinkmann, B. Becker-Ziaja. F. Schwarz, A. Nitsche); University of Colombo, Columbo, Sri Lanka (S. Siriwardana, T. Perera, J. Weerasena, S. Handunetti, I.C. Perera, S. Premawansa, W. Yapa); Ministry of Health, Colombo (H. Jeevatharan); Colombo North Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka (G. Premawansa)

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Figure 1

Positions of primers used for NiVliSeq amplification panel in study of Nipah virus shedding in urine from fruit bats, Sri Lanka, 2018–2019. Blue and green represent 2 nonoverlapping primer pools to which the primers were added.

Figure 1. Positions of primers used for NiVliSeq amplification panel in study of Nipah virus shedding in urine from fruit bats, Sri Lanka, 2018–2019. Blue and green represent 2 nonoverlapping primer pools to which the primers were added.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

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