Molecular characterization of Nipah virus from Pteropus hypomelanus in Southern Thailand

Table 1 PCR testing of urine specimens for Nipah virus (partial fragment, 357 bp), categorized by month and year of collection, from a single colony of Pteropus hypomelanus from an island in southern Thailand

Collected Dates	Population numbers^a	No. of positive/total^b (%)	Identity similarity to AF376747^c (%)
Collected Dates	Population numbers^a	No. of positive/total^b (%)	(GenBank number: identity/total nucleotides)
April 2010	800	2/28 (7.1)	KT163247: 1584/1599 (99.1 %)
April 2010	800	2/28 (7.1)	KT163249: 1589/1599 (99.4 %)
December 2010	228	0/7 (0)	-
January 2011	218	0/30 (0)	-
February 2011	675	1/24 (4.1)	KT163250: 1589/1599 (99.4 %)
March 2011	703	0/40 (0)	-
April 2011	606	0/26 (0)	-
May 2011	555	2/29 (6.9)	KT163248: 1588/1599 (99.3 %)
May 2011	555	2/29 (6.9)	KT163257: 357/357 (100 %)
Total		5/184 (2.7)

^aBat population numbers were counted, using the bounded count method [22], by 10 skilled forest staff
^bPooled bat urine sample collected under the trees
^cAF376747: Nipah virus genome isolated from Pteropus hypomelanus in Malaysia