Bombali ebolavirus

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| synonyms = *Bombali virus

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Bombali ebolavirus or Bombali virus (BOMV){{Cite web |title=Genus: Ebolavirus |url=https://talk.ictvonline.org/ictv-reports/ictv_online_report/negative-sense-rna-viruses/mononegavirales/w/filoviridae/1086/genus-ebolavirus |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190705060043/https://talk.ictvonline.org/ictv-reports/ictv_online_report/negative-sense-rna-viruses/mononegavirales/w/filoviridae/1086/genus-ebolavirus |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 5, 2019 |access-date=15 October 2019 |website=International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses |language=en |quote=Related, unclassified viruses Bombali virus MF319185 BOMV (Goldstein et al., 2018)}} is a species of the genus Ebolavirus, first reported on 27 July 2018.{{Cite web |title=Ministry of Health Sierra Leone |url=http://www.thesierraleonetelegraph.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ministry-of-Health-Sierra-Leone-new-strain-of-Ebola-virus-found.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818090309/https://www.thesierraleonetelegraph.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ministry-of-Health-Sierra-Leone-new-strain-of-Ebola-virus-found.pdf |archive-date=18 August 2022 |access-date=27 July 2018}} It was discovered and sequenced by a PREDICT research team from the U.S. in the Bombali area in the north of Sierra Leone, west Africa.{{Cite web |date=27 July 2018 |title=New Ebola species is reported for first time in a decade - STAT |url=https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/27/ebola-virus-discovery/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727151617/https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/27/ebola-virus-discovery/ |archive-date=27 July 2018 |access-date=27 July 2018 |website=statnews.com}}{{Cite web |date=27 July 2018 |title=New Ebola virus strain found in Sierra Leone |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/sierra-leone/new-ebola-virus-strain-found-sierra-leone |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221029224730/https://reliefweb.int/report/sierra-leone/new-ebola-virus-strain-found-sierra-leone |archive-date=29 October 2022 |access-date=27 July 2018 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}} The virus was found in the Angolan free-tailed bat and the Little free-tailed bat.{{Cite web |last=Rosenbaum |first=Leah |date=27 July 2018 |title=A new Ebola species has been found in bats in Sierra Leone |url=https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/new-ebola-virus-species-bats-sierra-leone |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205033233/https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/new-ebola-virus-species-bats-sierra-leone |archive-date=5 December 2022 |access-date=28 July 2018 |website=sciencenews.org |language=en}}

In 2019, the virus was demonstrated in Angolan free-tailed bats in southeast Kenya and southeast Guinea.{{Cite journal |last=Kristian M. Forbes |last2=Paul W. Webala |last3=Anne J. Jääskeläinen |display-authors=etal |year=2019 |title=Bombali Ebola Virus in Mops condylurus Bat, Kenya |journal=Emerging Infectious Diseases |volume=25 |issue=5 |pages=955–957 |doi=10.3201/eid2505.181666 |pmc=6478230 |pmid=31002301}}{{Cite journal |last=Lyudmila S. Karan |last2=Marat T. Makenov |last3=Mikhail G. Korneev |display-authors=etal |year=2019 |title=Bombali Virus in Mops condylurus Bats, Guinea |journal=Emerging Infectious Diseases |volume=25 |issue=9 |pages=1774–1775 |doi=10.3201/eid2509.190581 |pmc=6711222 |pmid=31310231}} Bombali ebolavirus has the capacity to infect human cells, although it has not yet been shown to be pathogenic.{{Cite web |date=26 July 2018 |title=New Ebola virus found in Sierra Leone, govt says |url=https://punchng.com/new-ebola-virus-found-in-sierra-leone-govt-says/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205170113/https://punchng.com/new-ebola-virus-found-in-sierra-leone-govt-says/ |archive-date=5 December 2022 |access-date=28 July 2018 |website=punchng.com}}{{Cite web |date=28 July 2018 |title=Scientists in West Africa are warning that a new strain of Ebola could infect humans. |url=https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-warn-new-ebola-strain-found-west-africa-has-potential-infect-1046701 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221029224732/https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-warn-new-ebola-strain-found-west-africa-has-potential-infect-1046701 |archive-date=29 October 2022 |access-date=28 July 2018 |website=newsweek.com |language=en}}

The team reporting the virus also published its full genome sequence (NC_039345).{{Cite journal |last=Goldstein |first=T |last2=Anthony |first2=SJ |last3=Gbakima |first3=A |last4=Bird |first4=BH |last5=Bangura |first5=J |last6=Tremeau-Bravard |first6=A |last7=Belaganahalli |first7=MN |last8=Wells |first8=HL |last9=Dhanota |first9=JK |last10=Liang |first10=E |last11=Grodus |first11=M |last12=Jangra |first12=RK |last13=DeJesus |first13=VA |last14=Lasso |first14=G |last15=Smith |first15=BR |date=October 2018 |title=The discovery of Bombali virus adds further support for bats as hosts of ebolaviruses. |journal=Nature Microbiology |volume=3 |issue=10 |pages=1084–1089 |doi=10.1038/s41564-018-0227-2 |pmc=6557442 |pmid=30150734 |quote=Phylogenetic analyses showed that BOMV is sufficiently distinct to represent the prototypic strain of a new species within the Ebolavirus genus |last16=Jambai |first16=A |last17=Kamara |first17=BO |last18=Kamara |first18=S |last19=Bangura |first19=W |last20=Monagin |first20=C |last21=Shapira |first21=S |last22=Johnson |first22=CK |last23=Saylors |first23=K |last24=Rubin |first24=EM |last25=Chandran |first25=K |last26=Lipkin |first26=WI |last27=Mazet |first27=JAK}}