Zihan Li, Chuanning Tang, Youyou Li, Yun Zhang, Gaoyu Wang, Ruoyan Peng, Yi Huang, Xiaoyuan Hu, Henan Xin, Xuefang Cao, Lingyu Shen, Tonglei Guo, Yijun He, Boxuan Fen, Juanjuan Huang, Jian Guo Liang, Xiuji Cui, Lina Niu, Jian Yang, Fan Yang, Gang Lu, Lei Gao, Qi Jin, Mingming Zhao, Feifei Yin, Jiang Du
Bats are important mammal reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens. However, due to research limitations involving species, locations, pathogens, or sample types, the full diversity of viruses in bats remains to be discovered. We used next-generation sequencing technology to characterize the mammalian virome and analyze the phylogenetic evolution and diversity of mammalian viruses carried by bats from Haikou City and Tunchang County in Hainan Province, China. We collected 200 pharyngeal swab and anal swab samples from Rhinolophus affinis, combining them into nine pools based on the sample type and collection location...
March 25, 2024: Microbes and Infection