TY - JOUR AU - Yadav, Pragya AU - Shete, Anita AU - Kumar, G. Arun AU - Sarkale, Prasad AU - Sahay, Rima AU - Radhakrishnan, Chandni AU - Lakra, Rajen AU - Pardeshi, Prachi AU - Gupta, Nivedita AU - Gangakhedkar, Raman AU - Rajendran, V.R. AU - Sadanandan, Rajeev AU - Mourya, Devendra T1 - Nipah Virus Sequences from Humans and Bats during Nipah Outbreak, Kerala, India, 2018 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 5 SP - 1003 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We retrieved Nipah virus (NiV) sequences from 4 human and 3 fruit bat (Pteropus medius) samples from a 2018 outbreak in Kerala, India. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that NiV from humans was 96.15% similar to a Bangladesh strain but 99.7%–100% similar to virus from Pteropus spp. bats, indicating bats were the source of the outbreak. KW - Human KW - Kerala KW - next-generation sequencing KW - Nipah virus KW - Pteropus medius KW - qRT-PCR KW - viruses KW - India DO - 10.3201/eid2505.181076 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/5/18-1076_article ER - End of Reference