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Volume 28, Number 12—December 2022
Dispatch

Highly Diverse Arenaviruses in Neotropical Bats, Brazil

Luiz Gustavo Bentim Góes, Carlo Fischer, Angélica Cristine Almeida Campos, Cristiano de Carvalho, Andrés Moreira-Soto, Guilherme Ambar, Adriana Ruckert da Rosa, Debora Cardoso de Oliveira, Wendy Karen Jo, Ariovaldo P. Cruz-Neto, Wagner André Pedro, Luzia Helena Queiroz, Paola Minoprio, Edison L. Durigon, and Jan Felix DrexlerComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany (L.G.B. Góes, C. Fischer, A.C.A. Campos, A. Moreira-Soto; W.K. Jo, J.F. Drexler); Scientific Platform Pasteur-USP, São Paulo, Brazil (L.G.B. Góes, A.C.A. Campos, P. Minoprio); Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (L.G.B. Góes, A.C.A. Campos, E.L. Durigon); Universidade Estadual Paulista, Araçatuba, Brazil (C. de Carvalho, W.A. Pedro, L.H. Queiroz); Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brazil (G. Ambar, A.P. Cruz-Neto); Centro de Controle de Zoonooses, São Paulo (A. Ruckert da Rosa, D. Cardoso de Oliveira); German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Berlin (W.K. Jo, J.F. Drexler)

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Table 1

Bat species screened for arenaviruses in study of highly diverse arenaviruses in neotropical bats, Brazil

Bat species Family No. bats No. positive (%, 95% CI)* Region† Sampling year (no. bats)
Artibeus fimbriatus Phyllostomidae 3 0 A 2012 (3)
A. lituratus Phyllostomidae 155 4 (2.6, 0.7–6.5) A–D 2007 (8), 2010 (26), 2011 (46), 2012 (45), 2013 (4), 2014 (12), 2015 (16)
A. obscurus Phyllostomidae 2 0 C, D 2013, 2015
A. planirostris
 Phyllostomidae
 9
 1 (11.1, 0.3–48.3)
 A–C
 2010 (3), 2011 (2), 2012 (2), 2013 (1), 2014 (1)
Carollia perspicillata
 Phyllostomidae
 63
 12 (19.1, 10.3–30.9)
 A–D
 2007 (18), 2010 (13), 2011 (18), 2012 (12), 2015 (2)
Chrotopterus auritus
 Phyllostomidae
 1
 0
 A
 2010
Cynomops planirostris
 Molossidae
 11
 0
 C, D
 2013 (1), 2014 (7), 2015 (3)
Desmodus rotundus
 Phyllostomidae
 69
 0
 C, D
 2007 (7), 2011 (44), 2012 (1), 2014 (15), 2015 (2)
Eptesicus furinalis
 Vespertilionidae
 17
 0
 C, D
 2011 (2), 2013 (6), 2014 (3), 2015 (6)
Eumops auripendulus Molossidae 2 0 D 2014, 2015
E. glaucinus Molossidae 106 0 C, D 2009 (1), 2010 (1), 2011 (5), 2012 (5), 2013 (19), 2014 (34), 2015 (41)
E. perotis
 Molossidae
 12
 0
 C, D
 2013 (1), 2014 (8), 2015 (3)
Glossophaga soricina
 Phyllostomidae
 70
 0
 C, D
 2007 (3), 2011 (2), 2012 (1), 2013 (2), 2014 (30), 2015 (32)
Lasiurus blossevillii Vespertilionidae 2 0 C, D 2011, 2012
L. cinereus Vespertilionidae 1 0 C 2013
L. ega
 Vespertilionidae
 2
 0
 C, D
 2013, 2014
Molossops neglectus Molossidae 1 0 D 2014
M. temminckii
 Molossidae
 2
 0
 C
 2011
Molossus molossus Molossidae 242 0 C, D 2007 (1), 2010 (1), 2011 (25), 2012 (16), 2013 (60), 2014 (84), 2015 (55)
M. rufus
 Molossidae
 160
 0
 C, D
 2009 (11), 2010 (1), 2011 (20), 2012 (28), 2013 (48), 2014 (27), 2015 (25)
Myotis nigricans Vespertilionidae 35 0 C, D 2011 (1), 2012 (4), 2013 (9), 2014 (6), 2015 (15)
M. riparius
 Vespertilionidae
 1
 0
 C
 2013
Noctilio albiventris
 Noctilionidae
 2
 0
 C
 2007 (2)
Nyctinomops laticaudatus Molossidae 4 0 C, D 2011 (1), 2014 (2), 2015 (1)
N. macrotis
 Molossidae
 1
 0
 D
 2014 (1)
Phyllostomus discolor
 Phyllostomidae
 2
 0
 D
 2014 (2)
Platyrrhinus lineatus
 Phyllostomidae
 6
 0
 C, D
 2014 (5), 2015 (1)
Promops nasutus
 Molossidae
 1
 0
 D
 2014 (1)
Pygoderma bilabiatum
 Phyllostomidae
 1
 0
 D
 2015 (1)
Sturnira lilium
 Phyllostomidae
 29
 0
 A, B, D
 2010 (5), 2011 (9), 2012 (14), 2015 (1)
Tadarida brasiliensis
 Molossidae
 30
 0
 C, D
 2014 (15), 2015 (15)
Vampyressa pusila
 Phyllostomidae
 1
 0
 B
 2012 (1)
Not identified
4
 0
 C, D
 2011(1), 2013 (2), 2014 (1)
Total 4 1,047 17 (1.6, 0.9–2.6) A–D 2007–2015

*Number of bats with arenavirus RNA detected by PCR. †Bats were collected from 36 sites within 4 main geographic regions of Brazil: A, Iguaçu National Park; B, central region of Parana state; C, northwest São Paulo state; and D, southwest São Paulo state.

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