Bats and bacterial pathogens: a review

K Mühldorfer - Zoonoses and public health, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The occurrence of emerging infectious diseases and their relevance to human health has
increased the interest in bats as potential reservoir hosts and vectors of zoonotic pathogens …

Pathogenesis of Y. enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis in Human Yersiniosis

CL Galindo, JA Rosenzweig, ML Kirtley… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Yersiniosis is a food‐borne illness that has become more prevalent in recent years due to
human transmission via the fecal‐oral route and prevalence in farm animals. Yersiniosis is …

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 …

Immunology of bats and their viruses: challenges and opportunities

T Schountz - Viruses, 2014 - mdpi.com
Bats are reservoir hosts of several high-impact viruses that cause significant human
diseases, including Nipah virus, Marburg virus and rabies virus. They also harbor many …

Diseases and causes of death in European bats: dynamics in disease susceptibility and infection rates

K Mühldorfer, S Speck, A Kurth, R Lesnik, C Freuling… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Bats receive increasing attention in infectious disease studies, because of their
well recognized status as reservoir species for various infectious agents. This is even more …

An overview of bats microbiota and its implication in transmissible diseases

L Federici, M Masulli, V De Laurenzi… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent pandemic events have raised the attention of the public on the interactions between
human and environment, with particular regard to the more and more feasible transmission …

The virome of German bats: Comparing virus discovery approaches

C Kohl, A Brinkmann, A Radonić, PW Dabrowski… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Bats are known to be reservoirs of several highly pathogenic viruses. Hence, the interest in
bat virus discovery has been increasing rapidly over the last decade. So far, most studies …

Molecular survey of bacterial zoonotic agents in bats from the country of Georgia (Caucasus)

Y Bai, L Urushadze, L Osikowicz, C McKee, I Kuzmin… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Bats are important reservoirs for many zoonotic pathogens. However, no surveys of bacterial
pathogens in bats have been performed in the Caucasus region. To understand the …

Novel hemotropic mycoplasmas are widespread and genetically diverse in vampire bats

DV Volokhov, DJ Becker, LM Bergner… - Epidemiology & …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Bats (Order: Chiroptera) have been widely studied as reservoir hosts for viruses of concern
for human and animal health. However, whether bats are equally competent hosts of non …

Diseases in free-ranging bats from Germany

K Mühldorfer, S Speck, G Wibbelt - BMC Veterinary Research, 2011 - Springer
Background The emergence of important viral diseases and their potential threat to humans
has increased the interest in bats as potential reservoir species. Whereas the majority of …