| West Caucasian bat lyssavirus | |
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Virus classification 
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| (unranked): | Virus |
| Realm: | Riboviria |
| Kingdom: | Orthornavirae |
| Phylum: | Negarnaviricota |
| Class: | Monjiviricetes |
| Order: | Mononegavirales |
| Family: | Rhabdoviridae |
| Genus: | Lyssavirus |
| Species: | West Caucasian bat lyssavirus
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West Caucasian bat lyssavirus (WCBL) is a member of genus Lyssavirus, family Rhabdoviridae and order Mononegavirales.[2] This virus was first isolated from Miniopterus schreibersii, in the western Caucasus Mountains of southeastern Europe in 2002.[3] WCBL is the most divergent form of Lyssavirus, and is found in Miniopterus bats (insectivorous), Rousettus aegyptiacus, and Eidolon helvum. The latter two are both fruit bats.[2] The virus is fragile as it can be inactivated by UV light and chemicals, such as ether, chloroform, and bleach.[4] WCBL has not been known to infect humans thus far.
- ^ Walker, Peter; et al. "mplementation of taxon-wide non-Latinized binomial species names in the family Rhabdoviridae" (PDF). International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- ^ a b "West Caucasian bat lyssavirus". www.genome.jp. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- ^ Kuzmin, Ivan V.; Niezgoda, Michael; Franka, Richard; Agwanda, Bernard; Markotter, Wanda; Beagley, Janet C.; Urazova, Olga Yu; Breiman, Robert F.; Rupprecht, Charles E. (December 2008). "Possible Emergence of West Caucasian Bat Virus in Africa". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 14 (12): 1887–1889. doi:10.3201/eid1412.080750. ISSN 1080-6040. PMC 2634633. PMID 19046512.
- ^ Rupprecht, Charles; Kuzmin, Ivan; Meslin, Francois (2017-02-23). "Lyssaviruses and rabies: current conundrums, concerns, contradictions and controversies". F1000Research. 6: 184. doi:10.12688/f1000research.10416.1. ISSN 2046-1402. PMC 5325067. PMID 28299201.