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Volume 28, Number 12—December 2022
Dispatch

Isolation of Bat Sarbecoviruses, Japan

Shin MurakamiComments to Author , Tomoya Kitamura, Hiromichi Matsugo, Haruhiko Kamiki, Ken Oyabu, Wataru Sekine, Akiko Takenaka-Uema, Yuko Sakai-Tagawa, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, and Taisuke Horimoto
Author affiliations: The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (S. Murakami, H. Matsugo, H. Kamiki, W. Sekine, A. Takenaka-Uema, Y. Sakai-Tagawa, Y. Kawaoka, T. Horimoto); National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tokyo (T. Kitamura); Isumi County‒City Nature Preservation Association, Isumi-gun, Chiba, Japan (K. Oyabu)

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Table 1

Detection of sarbecoviruses in Rhinolophus bats by RT-PCR, Japan*

Location Bat species No. samples No. positive RT-PCR samples
Niigata R. cornutus 26 2
R. ferrumequinum
 1
 0
Chiba R. cornutus 11 1
R. ferrumequinum
 16
 0
Shizuoka R. cornutus 21 2
R. ferrumequinum 13 0

*RT-PCR was performed by using sarbecovirus consensus primers targeting the envelope gene. RT-PCR, reverse transcription PCR.

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