Detection of Alphacoronavirus vRNA in the Feces of Brazilian Free-Tailed Bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) from a Colony in Florida, USA.

Autor: Bonny TS; Department of Environmental and Global Health, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA. tbonny@phhp.ufl.edu.; Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. tbonny@phhp.ufl.edu., Driver JP; Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0910, USA. jdriver@ufl.edu., Paisie T; Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. tpaisie@ufl.edu.; Genetics and Genomics, Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA. tpaisie@ufl.edu., Salemi M; Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. salemi@pathology.ufl.edu.; Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA. salemi@pathology.ufl.edu., Morris JG; Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. jgmorris@epi.ufl.edu.; Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0277, USA. jgmorris@epi.ufl.edu., Shender LA; Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Gainesville, FL 32601, USA. Lisa.Shender@MyFWC.com., Smith L; Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Gainesville, FL 32601, USA. Lisa.Smith@myfwc.com., Enloe C; Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Gainesville, FL 32601, USA. Carolyn.Enloe@myfwc.com., Oxenrider K; Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Gainesville, FL 32601, USA. Kevin.J.Oxenrider@wv.gov., Gore JA; Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Gainesville, FL 32601, USA. Jeff.Gore@MyFWC.com., Loeb JC; Department of Environmental and Global Health, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA. jloeb@phhp.ufl.edu.; Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. jloeb@phhp.ufl.edu., Wu CY; Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. cywu@essie.ufl.edu., Lednicky JA; Department of Environmental and Global Health, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA. jlednicky@phhp.ufl.edu.; Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. jlednicky@phhp.ufl.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) [Diseases] 2017 Feb 27; Vol. 5 (1). Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Feb 27.
DOI: 10.3390/diseases5010007
Abstrakt: Bats are natural reservoirs of coronaviruses and other viruses with zoonotic potential. Florida has indigenous non-migratory populations of Brazilian free-tailed bats ( Tadarida brasiliensis ) that mostly roost in colonies in artificial structures. Unlike their counterparts in Brazil and Mexico, the viruses harbored by the Florida bats have been underexplored. We report the detection of an alphacoronavirus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) gene sequence in the feces of two of 19 different T. brasiliensis that were capture/release bats that had been evaluated for overall health. The RdRp sequence is similar but not identical to previously detected sequences in the feces of two different species of bats ( T. brasiliensis and Molossus molossus ) in Brazil. In common with the experience of others doing similar work, attempts to isolate the virus in cell cultures were unsuccessful. We surmise that this and highly related alphacoronavirus are carried by Brazilian free-tailed bats living in a wide eco-spatial region. As various coronaviruses (CoVs) that affect humans emerged from bats, our study raises the question whether CoVs such as the one detected in our work are yet-to-be-detected pathogens of humans and animals other than bats.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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