Characterization of Nipah virus from naturally infected Pteropus vampyrus bats, Malaysia.
Rahman SA., Hassan SS., Olival KJ., Mohamed M., Chang L-Y., Hassan L., Saad NM., Shohaimi SA., Mamat ZC., Naim MS., Epstein JH., Suri AS., Field HE., Daszak P., Henipavirus Ecology Research Group None.
We isolated and characterized Nipah virus (NiV) from Pteropus vampyrus bats, the putative reservoir for the 1998 outbreak in Malaysia, and provide evidence of viral recrudescence. This isolate is monophyletic with previous NiVs in combined analysis, and the nucleocapsid gene phylogeny species.