Helmholtz Institute for One Health, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 17489 Greifswald, Germany.
Robert Koch Institute, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Viruses. 2024 Jul 31;16(8):1227. doi: 10.3390/v16081227.
Bombali virus (BOMV) is a novel Orthoebolavirus that has been detected in free-tailed bats in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Kenya, and Mozambique. We screened our collection of 349 free-tailed bat lungs collected in Côte d'Ivoire and Tanzania for BOMV RNA and tested 228 bat blood samples for BOMV antibodies. We did not detect BOMV-specific antibodies but found BOMV RNA in a bat from Tanzania, marking the first detection of an ebolavirus in this country. Our findings further expand the geographic range of BOMV and support ' role as a natural BOMV host.
邦巴利病毒（BOMV）是一种新型的正布尼亚病毒科病毒，已在塞拉利昂、几内亚、肯尼亚和莫桑比克的食虫蝙蝠中被检测到。我们对来自科特迪瓦和坦桑尼亚的 349 只食虫蝙蝠肺部样本进行了 BOMV RNA 筛查，并对 228 份蝙蝠血液样本进行了 BOMV 抗体检测。我们没有检测到 BOMV 特异性抗体，但在来自坦桑尼亚的一只蝙蝠中发现了 BOMV RNA，这标志着该国首次检测到埃博拉病毒。我们的发现进一步扩大了 BOMV 的地理范围，并支持其作为自然 BOMV 宿主的角色。
