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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2025

Bat Reovirus as Cause of Acute Respiratory Disease and Encephalitis in Humans, Bangladesh, 2022-2023.

Sharmin Sultana, Ariful Islam, James Ng, Sunil Kumar Dubey, Manjur Hossain Khan, Cheng Guo, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman, Joel M Montgomery, Syed Moinuddin Satter, Tahmina Shirin and 3 more

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Sharmin Sultana
Ariful Islam
James Ng
Sunil Kumar Dubey
Manjur Hossain Khan
Cheng Guo
Mohammed Ziaur Rahman
Joel M Montgomery
Syed Moinuddin Satter
Tahmina Shirin
W Ian Lipkin
Lisa Hensley
Nischay Mishra

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report 5 patients in Bangladesh presumed to have Nipah virus infections after consuming raw date palm sap. PCR and serology for Nipah virus were negative, but high-throughput sequencing identified Pteropine orthoreovirus in archived throat swab samples and virus cultures. This batborne virus should be considered in differential diagnosis of Nipah-like illnesses.

Indexed as

ChiropteraEncephalitis, ViralReoviridae InfectionsRespiratory Tract InfectionsAnimalsBangladeshHumansPhylogenyBangladeshbatsmeningitis/encephalitisNipah virusPteropine orthoreovirusesReovirusviruseszoonoses

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PMID41490742
PMCPMC12782263

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