Dakrong virus, a novel mobatvirus (Hantaviridae) harbored by the Stoliczka’s Asian trident bat (Aselliscus stoliczkanus) in Vietnam.

Arai S, Aoki K, Nguyen ST, Vuong TV, Kikuchi F, Kinoshita G, Fukui D, Hoang TT, Gu SH, Yoshikawa Y, Tanaka-Taya K, Morikawa S, Yanagihara R, Oishi K.

Citation

Arai S, Aoki K, Nguyen ST, Vuong TV, Kikuchi F, Kinoshita G, Fukui D, Hoang TT, Gu SH, Yoshikawa Y, Tanaka-Taya K, Morikawa S, Yanagihara R, Oishi K. (2019) Dakrong virus, a novel mobatvirus (Hantaviridae) harbored by the Stoliczka’s Asian trident bat (Aselliscus stoliczkanus) in Vietnam. Scientific Reports 9(1):10239.

Abstract

The recent discovery of genetically distinct shrew- and mole-borne viruses belonging to the newly defined family Hantaviridae (order Bunyavirales) has spurred an extended search for hantaviruses in RNAlater-preserved lung tissues from 215 bats (order Chiroptera) representing five families (Hipposideridae, Megadermatidae, Pteropodidae, Rhinolophidae and Vespertilionidae), collected in Vietnam during 2012 to 2014. A newly identified hantavirus, designated Dakrong virus (DKGV), was detected in one of two Stoliczka’s Asian trident bats (Aselliscus stoliczkanus), from Dakrong Nature Reserve in Quang Tri Province. Using maximum-likelihood and Bayesian methods, phylogenetic trees based on the full-length S, M and L segments showed that DKGV occupied a basal position with other mobatviruses, suggesting that primordial hantaviruses may have been hosted by ancestral bats.