TY - JOUR AU - Campos, Angélica Cristine Almeida AU - Góes, Luiz Gustavo Bentim AU - Moreira-Soto, Andres AU - de Carvalho, Cristiano AU - Ambar, Guilherme AU - Sander, Anna-Lena AU - Fischer, Carlo AU - Ruckert da Rosa, Adriana AU - Cardoso de Oliveira, Debora AU - Kataoka, Ana Paula AU - Pedro, Wagner André AU - Martorelli, Luzia Fátima AU - Queiroz, Luzia Helena AU - Cruz-Neto, Ariovaldo AU - Durigon, Edison Luiz AU - Drexler, Jan Felix T1 - Bat Influenza A(HL18NL11) Virus in Fruit Bats, Brazil T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 2 SP - 333 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Screening of 533 bats for influenza A viruses showed subtype HL18NL11 in intestines of 2 great fruit-eating bats (Artibeus lituratus). High concentrations suggested fecal shedding. Genomic characterizations revealed conservation of viral genes across different host species, countries, and sampling years, suggesting a conserved cellular receptor and wide-ranging occurrence of bat influenza A viruses. KW - influenza A virus KW - bats KW - HL18NL11 KW - Atlantic forest KW - viruses KW - influenza KW - zoonoses KW - Brazil DO - 10.3201/eid2502.181246 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/2/18-1246_article ER - End of Reference