Trends in bacterial pathogens of bats: global distribution and knowledge gaps

T Szentivanyi, C McKee, G Jones… - Transboundary and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bats have received considerable recent attention for infectious disease research because of
their potential to host and transmit viruses, including Ebola, Hendra, Nipah, and multiple …

Isolation of infectious Lloviu virus from Schreiber's bats in Hungary

G Kemenesi, GE Tóth, M Mayora-Neto, S Scott… - nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Some filoviruses can be transmitted to humans by zoonotic spillover events from their
natural host and filovirus outbreaks have occured with increasing frequency in the last years …

Autochthonous Trypanosoma spp. in European Mammals: A Brief Journey amongst the Neglected Trypanosomes

A Magri, R Galuppi, M Fioravanti - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
The genus Trypanosoma includes flagellated protozoa belonging to the family
Trypanosomatidae (Euglenozoa, Kinetoplastida) that can infect humans and several animal …

Vector‐borne protozoan and bacterial pathogen occurrence and diversity in ectoparasites of the Egyptian Rousette bat

T Szentiványi, AC Heintz, W Markotter… - Medical and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bats are known reservoir hosts for a wide variety of parasites and pathogens, including
bacteria and protozoans. Some of these pathogens are vector‐borne, and although their …

Detection of bacterial and protozoan pathogens in individual bats and their ectoparasites using high-throughput microfluidic real-time PCR

A Corduneanu, Z Zając, J Kulisz, A Wozniak… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Among the most studied mammals in terms of their role in the spread of various pathogens
with possible zoonotic effects are bats. These are animals with a very complex lifestyle, diet …

Viral hyperparasitism in bat ectoparasites: Implications for pathogen maintenance and transmission

A Tendu, AC Hughes, N Berthet, G Wong - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Humans continue to encroach on the habitats of wild animals, potentially bringing different
species into contact that would not typically encounter each other under natural …

Isolation and molecular characterization of Polychromophilus spp. (Haemosporida: Plasmodiidae) from the Asian long-fingered bat (Miniopterus fuliginosus) and Japanese …

I Rosyadi, H Shimoda, A Takano, T Yanagida… - Parasitology …, 2022 - Springer
Bats (order, Chiroptera) account for more than one-fifth of all mammalian species in the
world and are infected by various intra-erythrocytic parasites of the family Plasmodiidae …

First investigation of blood parasites of bats in Burkina Faso detects Hepatocystis parasites and infections with diverse Trypanosoma spp.

NG Thiombiano, M Boungou, BAM Chabi, A Oueda… - Parasitology …, 2023 - Springer
Bats are hosts to a large diversity of eukaryotic protozoan blood parasites that comprise
species of Trypanosoma and different haemosporidian parasite taxa and bats have played …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of COI gene, prevalence, and intensity of the bat fly Cyclopodia greeffi on roosting straw-coloured fruit bat Eidolon helvum in Southwest Nigeria

OE Atobatele, IV Olatubi, OG Oyeku… - International Journal for …, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigated ectoparasite diversity, interspecific infestation rates and host preference in
roosting fruit bats, Eidolon helvum, from Bowen University, Southwest Nigeria. Fur of …

The complete mitochondrial genomes and phylogenetic analysis of two Nycteribiidae bat flies (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea)

ML Porter, H Lutz, M Steck, RA Chong - Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We sequenced the complete mitochondrial genomes of two bat fly species within the
Nycteribiidae (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea)–Dipseliopoda setosa (Cyclopodiinae) and Basilia …