ArticlePloS one2017
Serological evidence of arenavirus circulation among fruit bats in Trinidad.
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- Development of a new quantitative RT-PCR to detect lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Discovery and biological confirmation of a highly divergent Tacaribe virus in metatranscriptomic data from neotropical bats.mSphere · 2024Article
- Unraveling the mystery of Tacaribe virus.mSphere · 2024Article
- A dsRNA-binding mutant reveals only a minor role of exonuclease activity in interferon antagonism by the arenavirus nucleoprotein.PLoS pathogens · 2023Article
- Highly Diverse Arenaviruses in Neotropical Bats, Brazil.Emerging infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Different but Not Unique: Deciphering the Immunity of the Jamaican Fruit Bat by Studying Its Viriome.Viruses · 2022Review
- Common Themes in Zoonotic Spillover and Disease Emergence: Lessons Learned from Bat- and Rodent-Borne RNA Viruses.Viruses · 2021Review
- Serological Evidence of Multiple Zoonotic Viral Infections among Wild Rodents in Barbados.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Serological Evidence for Henipa-like and Filo-like Viruses in Trinidad Bats.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Hematologic Values of Jamaican Fruit Bats (Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2020Article
- Molecular and cellular evidence of natural Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus infection in frugivorous bats in Colombia.Veterinary world · 2020Article
- Eco-epidemiology of the Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus in bats of Córdoba and Sucre, Colombia.Acta tropica · 2019Article
- Diverse RNA viruses of arthropod origin in the blood of fruit bats suggest a link between bat and arthropod viromes.Virology · 2019Article
- Tools to study pathogen-host interactions in bats.Virus research · 2018Review
- Going to Bat(s) for Studies of Disease Tolerance.Frontiers in immunology · 2018Review
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Abstract
Tacaribe virus (TCRV) was isolated in the 1950s from artibeus bats captured on the island of Trinidad. The initial characterization of TCRV suggested that artibeus bats were natural reservoir hosts. However, nearly 60 years later experimental infections of Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) resulted in fatal disease or clearance, suggesting artibeus bats may not be a reservoir host. To further evaluate the TCRV reservoir host status of artibeus bats, we captured bats of six species in Trinidad for evidence of infection. Bats of all four fruigivorous species captured had antibodies to TCRV nucleocapsid, whereas none of the insectivore or nectarivore species did. Many flat-faced fruit-eating bats (A. planirostris) and great fruit-eating bats (A. literatus) were seropositive by ELISA and western blot to TCRV nucleocapsid antigen, as were two of four Seba's fruit bats (Carollia perspicillata) and two of three yellow-shouldered fruit bats (Sturnira lilium). Serum neutralization tests failed to detect neutralizing antibodies to TCRV from these bats. TCRV RNA was not detected in lung tissues or lung homogenates inoculated onto Vero cells. These data indicate that TCRV or a similar arenavirus continues to circulate among fruit bats of Trinidad but there was no evidence of persistent infection, suggesting artibeus bats are not reservoir hosts.
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