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Volume 27, Number 4—April 2021
Dispatch

Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Complex Alphavirus in Bats, French Guiana

Carlo Fischer1, Dominique Pontier1, Ondine Filippi-Codaccioni, Jean-Batiste Pons, Ignacio Postigo-Hidalgo, Jeanne Duhayer, Sebastian Brünink, and Jan Felix DrexlerComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Virology, Berlin, Germany (C. Fischer, I. Postigo-Hidalgo, S. Brünink, J.F. Drexler); Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France (D. Pontier, O. Filippi-Codaccioni, J.-B. Pons, J. Duhayer); German Centre for Infection Research, Berlin, Germany (J.F. Drexler)

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Figure 1

Tonate virus hosts and cycles for study of Venezuelan equine encephalitis complex alphavirus in bats, French Guiana. A) Geographic location of French Guiana in South America and distribution of fringe-lipped bats according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List (https://www.iucnredlist.org/). B) Schematic transmission cycles of TONV according to data from this study and preliminary studies (5,6).

Figure 1. Tonate virus hosts and cycles for study of Venezuelan equine encephalitis complex alphavirus in bats, French Guiana. A) Geographic location of French Guiana in South America and distribution of fringe-lipped bats according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List (https://www.iucnredlist.org/). B) Schematic transmission cycles of TONV according to data from this study and preliminary studies (5,6).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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