Serological Evidence of Influenza A Viruses in Frugivorous Bats from Africa

• Gudrun Stephanie Freidl ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gudrun Stephanie Freidl, Tabea Binger

  * E-mail: gudrun.freidl@rivm.nl

  Affiliations Center for Infectious Diseases Research, Diagnostics and Screening, Department of Virology, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, Viroscience Department, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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• Tabea Binger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gudrun Stephanie Freidl, Tabea Binger

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

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• Marcel Alexander Müller,

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

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• Erwin de Bruin,

  Affiliations Center for Infectious Diseases Research, Diagnostics and Screening, Department of Virology, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, Viroscience Department, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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• Janko van Beek,

  Affiliations Center for Infectious Diseases Research, Diagnostics and Screening, Department of Virology, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, Viroscience Department, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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• Victor Max Corman,

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

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• Andrea Rasche,

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

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• Jan Felix Drexler,

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

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• Augustina Sylverken,

  Affiliations Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Samuel K. Oppong,

  Affiliations Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Yaw Adu-Sarkodie,

  Affiliations Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Marco Tschapka,

  Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

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• Veronika M. Cottontail,

  Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

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• Christian Drosten ,

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

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• Marion Koopmans

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Center for Infectious Diseases Research, Diagnostics and Screening, Department of Virology, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands, Viroscience Department, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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