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.
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Conceição-Neto, N., Mesquita, J. R., Zeller, M., Yinda, C. K., Álvares, F., Roque, S., … Matthijnssens, J. (2016). Reassortment among picobirnaviruses found in wolves. Archives of Virology, 161(10), 2859–2862. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-016-2987-4
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