[HTML][HTML] Bat-borne virus diversity, spillover and emergence

M Letko, SN Seifert, KJ Olival, RK Plowright… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Most viral pathogens in humans have animal origins and arose through cross-species
transmission. Over the past 50 years, several viruses, including Ebola virus, Marburg virus …

[HTML][HTML] Bats and coronaviruses

A Banerjee, K Kulcsar, V Misra, M Frieman, K Mossman - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Bats are speculated to be reservoirs of several emerging viruses including coronaviruses
(CoVs) that cause serious disease in humans and agricultural animals. These include CoVs …

Pathogenicity and virulence of Marburg virus

MH Abir, T Rahman, A Das, SN Etu, IH Nafiz, A Rakib… - Virulence, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Marburg virus (MARV) has been a major concern since 1967, with two major outbreaks
occurring in 1998 and 2004. Infection from MARV results in severe hemorrhagic fever …

[HTML][HTML] The Egyptian rousette genome reveals unexpected features of bat antiviral immunity

SS Pavlovich, SP Lovett, G Koroleva, JC Guito… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Bats harbor many viruses asymptomatically, including several notorious for causing extreme
virulence in humans. To identify differences between antiviral mechanisms in humans and …

Preserve a voucher specimen! The critical need for integrating natural history collections in infectious disease studies

CW Thompson, KL Phelps, MW Allard, JA Cook… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Despite being nearly 10 months into the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic,
the definitive animal host for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

[HTML][HTML] Immune system modulation and viral persistence in bats: understanding viral spillover

S Subudhi, N Rapin, V Misra - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Bats harbor a myriad of viruses and some of these viruses may have spilled over to other
species including humans. Spillover events are rare and several factors must align to create …

[HTML][HTML] Isolation of Angola-like Marburg virus from Egyptian rousette bats from West Africa

BR Amman, BH Bird, IA Bakarr, J Bangura… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Marburg virus (MARV) causes sporadic outbreaks of severe Marburg virus disease (MVD).
Most MVD outbreaks originated in East Africa and field studies in East Africa, South Africa …

[HTML][HTML] Immunological control of viral infections in bats and the emergence of viruses highly pathogenic to humans

T Schountz, ML Baker, J Butler, V Munster - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Bats are reservoir hosts of many important viruses that cause substantial disease in humans,
including coronaviruses, filoviruses, lyssaviruses, and henipaviruses. Other than the …

[HTML][HTML] Asymptomatic infection of Marburg virus reservoir bats is explained by a strategy of immunoprotective disease tolerance

JC Guito, JB Prescott, CE Arnold, BR Amman… - Current biology, 2021 - cell.com
Marburg virus (MARV) is among the most virulent pathogens of primates, including humans.
Contributors to severe MARV disease include immune response suppression and …

[HTML][HTML] Going to bat (s) for studies of disease tolerance

JN Mandl, C Schneider, DS Schneider… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
A majority of viruses that have caused recent epidemics with high lethality rates in people,
are zoonoses originating from wildlife. Among them are filoviruses (eg, Marburg, Ebola) …