Cultivable Gut Microbiota in Synanthropic Bats: Shifts of Its Composition and Diversity Associated with Hibernation

IV Popov, IS Berezinskaia, IV Popov, IB Martiusheva… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Bats play a significant role in public health and animal welfare as these
animals are hosts for emerging pathogens. Urbanization has resulted in the acquisition of …

Genomic screening of 16 UK native bat species through conservationist networks uncovers coronaviruses with zoonotic potential

CCS Tan, J Trew, TP Peacock, KY Mok, C Hart… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
There has been limited characterisation of bat-borne coronaviruses in Europe. Here, we
screened for coronaviruses in 48 faecal samples from 16 of the 17 bat species breeding in …

Lack of SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA detection among a convenience sampling of Ohio wildlife, companion, and agricultural animals, 2020–2021

M Ehrlich, C Madden, DS McBride, JM Nolting, D Huey… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary SARS-CoV-2, the virus lead to global COVID-19 pandemic, is thought to
have an animal origin. From humans, SARS-CoV-2 then transmitted to multiple animal …

Gut Microbiota Composition of Insectivorous Synanthropic and Fructivorous Zoo Bats: A Direct Metagenomic Comparison

IV Popov, IV Popov, AA Krikunova, TA Lipilkina… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bats are natural reservoirs for many emerging viral diseases. That is why their virome is
widely studied. But at the same time, studies of their bacterial gut microbiota are limited …

A First Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Circulation in Bats of Central–Southern Italy

H Dakroub, D Russo, L Cistrone, F Serra, G Fusco… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
One serious concern associated with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is that the virus might spill
back from humans to wildlife, which would render some animal species reservoirs of the …

Sarbecoviruses of British horseshoe bats; sequence variation and epidemiology

T Apaa, AJ Withers, C Staley… - Journal of General …, 2023 - microbiologyresearch.org
Horseshoe bats are the natural hosts of the Sarbecovirus subgenus that includes SARS-
CoV and SARS-CoV-2. Despite the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is …

Detection of Brno loanvirus (Loanvirus brunaense) in common noctule bats (Nyctalus noctula) in Southern Russia

OV Ohlopkova, KA Stolbunova, IV Popov… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Hantaviruses that infect humans are rodent-derived viruses with zoonotic potential. Several
studies show that before emerging in rodents hantaviruses could emerge in bats, which …