Lessons from the host defences of bats, a unique viral reservoir

AT Irving, M Ahn, G Goh, DE Anderson, LF Wang - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
There have been several major outbreaks of emerging viral diseases, including Hendra,
Nipah, Marburg and Ebola virus diseases, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and …

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 …

The discovery of Bombali virus adds further support for bats as hosts of ebolaviruses

T Goldstein, SJ Anthony, A Gbakima, BH Bird… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Here we describe the complete genome of a new ebolavirus, Bombali virus (BOMV)
detected in free-tailed bats in Sierra Leone (little free-tailed (Chaerephon pumilus) and …

The pathogenesis of Ebola virus disease

L Baseler, DS Chertow, KM Johnson… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
For almost 50 years, ebolaviruses and related filoviruses have been repeatedly reemerging
across the vast equatorial belt of the African continent to cause epidemics of highly fatal …

Viral quasispecies evolution

E Domingo, J Sheldon, C Perales - Microbiology and Molecular …, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Evolution of RNA viruses occurs through disequilibria of collections of closely related mutant
spectra or mutant clouds termed viral quasispecies. Here we review the origin of the …

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 …

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 …

Ebola

H Feldmann, A Sprecher… - New England Journal of …, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
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