Autor(es): Conceição-Neto, Nádia ; Mesquita, João R ; Zeller, Mark ; Yinda, Claude Kwe ; Álvares, Francisco ; Roque, Sara ; Petrucci-Fonseca, Francisco ; Godinho, Raquel ; Heylen, Elisabeth ; Van Ranst, Marc ; Matthijnssens, Jelle
Data: 2016
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/4108
Origem: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Viseu
We conducted a viral metagenomics study in diarrheic free-ranging wolves in Portugal, revealing for the first time the presence of reassortant picobirnaviruses. These viruses shared identical capsid segments together with diverse RNA-dependent RNA polymerase segments. Even though causality between these picobirnaviruses and diarrhea could not be established, the study nonetheless confirms for the first time that wolves are a potential reservoir for picobirnaviruses, which might play a role as enteric pathogens.
