A novel bat-associated circovirus identified in northern Hokkaido, Japan

Matsumoto T 1 , Sato M 2 , Nishizono A 3 , Ahmed K 4

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu-shi, Oita, 879-5593, Japan
  • 2 Rishiri Town Museum, Honchō-136 Senhōshi, Rishiri-cho, Rishiri-gun, Hokkaido, Japan
  • 3 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu-shi, Oita, 879-5593, Japan
  • 4 Department of Pathobiology and Medical Diagnostics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. ahmed@ums.edu.my
Arch Virol, 2019 Aug;164(8):2179-2182.
PMID: 31111258 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-019-04286-x

Abstract

We identified two novel circoviruses, HK02976 and HK00220, in oral swabs from bats. The size of their full genome was 2,010 nucleotides (nt). The full-genome sequence of our strains shared 96.1% nucleotide sequence identity with each other, and 39.9%-69.5% identity with bat-associated circoviruses (BatACVs)1-9. Based on the species demarcation threshold for viruses of the family Circoviridae, which is 80% genome-wide nucleotide sequence identity, we have tentatively named this group of viruses "bat-associated circovirus 10" (BatACV10).

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