Viruses in bats and potential spillover to animals and humans

LF Wang, DE Anderson - Current opinion in virology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Bats are a very important source of emerging viruses.•Bat coronavirus, filovirus,
paramyxovirus and reovirus are known zoonotic viruses.•Many of the emergent bat viruses …

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 …

Seasonal Pulses of Marburg Virus Circulation in Juvenile Rousettus aegyptiacus Bats Coincide with Periods of Increased Risk of Human Infection

BR Amman, SA Carroll, ZD Reed, TK Sealy… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Marburg virus (family Filoviridae) causes sporadic outbreaks of severe hemorrhagic disease
in sub-Saharan Africa. Bats have been implicated as likely natural reservoir hosts based …

Filovirus pathogenesis and immune evasion: insights from Ebola virus and Marburg virus

I Messaoudi, GK Amarasinghe, CF Basler - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Ebola viruses and Marburg viruses, members of the filovirus family, are zoonotic pathogens
that cause severe disease in people, as highlighted by the latest Ebola virus epidemic in …

Ebola viral glycoprotein bound to its endosomal receptor Niemann-Pick C1

H Wang, Y Shi, J Song, J Qi, G Lu, J Yan, GF Gao - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Summary Filoviruses, including Ebola and Marburg, cause fatal hemorrhagic fever in
humans and primates. Understanding how these viruses enter host cells could help to …

Isolation of genetically diverse Marburg viruses from Egyptian fruit bats

JS Towner, BR Amman, TK Sealy, SAR Carroll… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
In July and September 2007, miners working in Kitaka Cave, Uganda, were diagnosed with
Marburg hemorrhagic fever. The likely source of infection in the cave was Egyptian fruit bats …

Mapping the zoonotic niche of Ebola virus disease in Africa

DM Pigott, N Golding, A Mylne, Z Huang, AJ Henry… - elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a complex zoonosis that is highly virulent in humans. The
largest recorded outbreak of EVD is ongoing in West Africa, outside of its previously reported …

Filoviruses in bats: current knowledge and future directions

KJ Olival, DTS Hayman - Viruses, 2014 - mdpi.com
Filoviruses, including Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus, pose significant threats to public health
and species conservation by causing hemorrhagic fever outbreaks with high mortality rates …

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 …

Genetic identity, biological phenotype, and evolutionary pathways of transmitted/founder viruses in acute and early HIV-1 infection

JF Salazar-Gonzalez, MG Salazar, BF Keele… - Journal of Experimental …, 2009 - rupress.org
Identification of full-length transmitted HIV-1 genomes could be instrumental in HIV-1
pathogenesis, microbicide, and vaccine research by enabling the direct analysis of those …