160927 20251017144626.0 doi 10.1007/s11259-025-10747-3 sideral 144038 ART-2025-144038 eng Sacristán, Carlos Molecular survey of herpesviruses in bats from Chile and Spain reveals potentially novel species 2025 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Bats (order Chiroptera) are known as important hosts and reservoirs for several zoonotic viruses. To this date, most virology studies in bats have focused on RNA viruses; consequently, information about DNA viruses is more limited. Herein we surveyed the presence of herpesviruses in blood or spleen samples of three bat species of Spain (n = 31) and five bat species of Chile (n = 50) by using a broad-spectrum nested PCR. Overall, herpesvirus DNA was detected in 9.7% (3/31) bats of Spain and 10.0% (5/50) bats of Chile. Three gammaherpesvirus sequence types were found in bats from Spain, while sequence types of two betaherpesviruses, two gammaherpesviruses and one unclassified herpesvirus were detected in Chilean bats, two of which could represent novel herpesvirus species. The impact (if any) of these herpesviruses on the health of the studied species needs to be clarified. This study increases our knowledge of herpesvirus diversity in bats and expands their geographic range in South America. Future herpesvirus surveillance studies are warranted to test chiropteran families other than Vespertilionidae and Molossidae in Chile and Spain. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/CGL2010-17931 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/FJC-2020-046311–I info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/Juan de la Cierva Program-IJC2020-046019-I info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Esperón, Fernando Sacristán, Irene Serra Cobo, Jordi López Roig, Marc Lisón, Fulgencio Millán, Javier (orcid)0000-0001-5608-781X 49, 3 (2025), 8 pp. Vet. res. commun. Veterinary Research Communications 0165-7380 4327774 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/160927/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2367247 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/160927/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:160927 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:24:27 ARTICLE