Isolation and genome characterization of Lloviu virus from Italian Schreibers’s bats

Abstract Lloviu cuevavirus (LLOV) was the first identified member of Filoviridae family outside the Ebola and Marburgvirus genera. A massive die-off of Schreibers’s bats (Miniopterus schreibersii) in the Iberian Peninsula in 2002 led to its initial discovery. Recent studies with recombinant and wild...

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Main Authors: Gábor E. Tóth, Adam J. Hume, Ellen L. Suder, Safia Zeghbib, Ágota Ábrahám, Zsófia Lanszki, Zsaklin Varga, Zsófia Tauber, Fanni Földes, Brigitta Zana, Dino Scaravelli, Maria Teresa Scicluna, Andrea Pereswiet-Soltan, Tamás Görföl, Calogero Terregino, Paola De Benedictis, Isabel Garcia-Dorival, Covadonga Alonso, Ferenc Jakab, Elke Mühlberger, Stefania Leopardi, Gábor Kemenesi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38364-7