American Society for Microbiology, Microbiology Spectrum, 4(10), 2022
DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.01585-22
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Mammarenaviruses cause a persistent infection in their natural rodent and bat hosts. Reptarenaviruses cause boid inclusion body disease (BIBD) in constrictor snakes, but it is unclear whether snakes are the natural host of these viruses.