A virus similar to Ebola Virus (Filoviridae), but apparently not pathogenic to humans, just be detected on cadavers of bats from the Province of Asturias (Northwest of Spain) (Information Pro-MED). Yet unpublished results have been presented by Professor Francisco Llinares to IVth Conference of Microbiology and Public Health at the University of San Pablo CEU.
Relatively few details are available on this study but a priori, this would be corpses collected during mass mortality observed in 2002 in Miniopterus schreibersii. In the news Pro-MED, it is said that when a group of researchers came to control the bodies after the mass mortality, Filovirus they realized that was the cause of death (“Only when by chance a group of researchers came to check [on these bat deaths] did they realize that an ebolavirus was the cause of the mortality“). The information in this news release Pro-MED are quite limited and detailed studies have not been exposed. However, this news suggests that the mass mortality of 2002 in Miniopterus schreibersii was caused by this new Filovirus.
More information will be posted on this site that the details of this study will be published. However, This discovery reminds us once again that we know little about the viruses present in European bats. Every phenomenon of mass mortalities in bats requires advanced studies on cadavers, particularly in virology.
Seb.
Tags : Europe, Filoviridae, Miniopterus schreibersii, Mortality, Virus
Hello Sebastian,
Uh, it must be pretty mortality Minioptère year 2002 ? which is cited as it is well that year and not 2003 !
Effectively, Sebastian thank you for the clarification (correction made). Time flies … Eight years ago, this die-off occurred … and say that we still do not know really what it is spent !
The complete genome of this new member of the family Filoviridae has been sequenced recently, but the first detection dates back several years.
Meriadeg.
April 2012.
Hello, I'm John Quetglas, coauthor of Negredo et al 2011, Discovery of an Ebolavirus-like Filovirus in Europe. PLoS Pathog 7(10):e1002304. two:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002304.
I would like to point out that all that is known is that there appeared a type filovirus Ebola. It was discovered during the investigation of the death of 2002 but although this may point to a cause-effect relationship is only that: a hypothetical indication. Holders would be better to avoid having an impact on that relationship. The solid discovery is the presence of an Ebola type filivirus.
Abstract:
Filoviruses, amongst the most lethal of primate pathogens, have only been reported as natural infections in sub-Saharan
Africa and the Philippines. Infections of bats with the ebolaviruses and marburgviruses do not appear to be associated with
disease. Here we report identification in dead insectivorous bats of a genetically distinct filovirus, provisionally named Lloviu
virus, after the site of detection, Cave Lloviu, in Spain.
John Quetglas
Group of Ecology and Systematics of bats
Doñana Biological Station (CSIC)
Ave. Americo Vespucio s / n
E-41092 Seville (Spain)
quetglas@ebd.csic.es
Thank you very much for your comment John, a note was given the title of the article. If you wish to participate in this or another topic, You can submit an article on this blog.
Meriadeg