Dating to the seminal discovery of Hantaan virus in lung tissue of the striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius) [27] , lung has been the preferred tissue in studies aimed at finding new hantaviruses [28] [29] [30] . However, lung is not the only tissue in which hantaviruses can be detected [27, 31] . In our search of genetically distinct hantaviruses in long-stored archival tissues from shrews and moles, lung tissue was frequently unavailable. Instead, liver tissue was more often accessible and proved to be quite suitable [4, 5, 12, 13] . Similarly, liver tissues were more often available in the present study. As in reservoir rodents and soricomorphs, hantavirus RNA is likely to be present in many tissues of persistently infected bats. Real-time quantitative RT-PCR analysis of lung, liver and other viscera will clarify the tissue distribution of MOUV in newly captured banana pipistrelles from Mouyassué.