%0 Journal Article %J PLoS pathogens %D 2011 %T Discovery of an ebolavirus-like filovirus in europe. %A Negredo, Ana %A Palacios, Gustavo %A Vázquez-Morón, Sonia %A González, Félix %A Dopazo, Hernán %A Molero, Francisca %A Juste, Javier %A Quetglas, Juan %A Savji, Nazir %A de la Cruz Martínez, Maria %A Herrera, Jesus Enrique %A Pizarro, Manuel %A Hutchison, Stephen K %A Echevarría, Juan E %A Lipkin, W Ian %A Tenorio, Antonio %X

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, Cueva del Lloviu, in Spain.

%B PLoS pathogens %V 7 %P e1002304 %8 2011 Oct %G eng