Nipah virus infection

BSP Ang, TCC Lim, L Wang - Journal of clinical microbiology, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Nipah virus, a paramyxovirus related to Hendra virus, first emerged in Malaysia in 1998.
Clinical presentation ranges from asymptomatic infection to fatal encephalitis. Malaysia has …

Bats and their virome: an important source of emerging viruses capable of infecting humans

I Smith, LF Wang - Current opinion in virology, 2013 - Elsevier
Bats are being increasingly recognized as an important reservoir of zoonotic viruses of
different families, including SARS coronavirus, Nipah virus, Hendra virus and Ebola virus …

[HTML][HTML] Nipah virus transmission from bats to humans associated with drinking traditional liquor made from date palm sap, Bangladesh, 2011–2014

MS Islam, HMS Sazzad, SM Satter… - Emerging infectious …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nipah virus (NiV) is a paramyxovirus, and Pteropus spp. bats are the natural reservoir. From
December 2010 through March 2014, hospital-based encephalitis surveillance in …

The ecology of Nipah virus in Bangladesh: a nexus of land-use change and opportunistic feeding behavior in bats

CD McKee, A Islam, SP Luby, H Salje, PJ Hudson… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nipah virus is a bat-borne paramyxovirus that produces yearly outbreaks of fatal
encephalitis in Bangladesh. Understanding the ecological conditions that lead to spillover …

Ecological countermeasures for preventing zoonotic disease outbreaks: when ecological restoration is a human health imperative

JK Reaser, A Witt, GM Tabor, PJ Hudson… - Restoration …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological restoration should be regarded as a public health service. Unfortunately, the lack
of quantitative linkages between environmental and human health has limited recognition of …

[HTML][HTML] Convergence of humans, bats, trees, and culture in Nipah virus transmission, Bangladesh

ES Gurley, ST Hegde, K Hossain… - Emerging infectious …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Preventing emergence of new zoonotic viruses depends on understanding determinants for
human risk. Nipah virus (NiV) is a lethal zoonotic pathogen that has spilled over from bats …

Animal models of disease shed light on Nipah virus pathogenesis and transmission

E de Wit, VJ Munster - The Journal of pathology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Nipah virus is an emerging virus infection that causes yearly disease outbreaks with high
case fatality rates in Bangladesh. Nipah virus causes encephalitis and systemic vasculitis …

A randomized controlled trial of interventions to impede date palm sap contamination by bats to prevent nipah virus transmission in Bangladesh

SU Khan, ES Gurley, MJ Hossain, N Nahar… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Drinking raw date palm sap is a risk factor for human Nipah virus (NiV)
infection. Fruit bats, the natural reservoir of NiV, commonly contaminate raw sap with saliva …

[PDF][PDF] Zoonotic viruses and conservation of bats

K Schneeberger, CC Voigt - … : Conservation of bats in a changing …, 2016 - library.oapen.org
Many of the recently emerging highly virulent zoonotic diseases have a likely bat origin, for
example Hendra, Nipah, Ebola and diseases caused by coronaviruses. Presumably …

Food for contagion: synthesis and future directions for studying host–parasite responses to resource shifts in anthropogenic environments

S Altizer, DJ Becker, JH Epstein… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human-provided resource subsidies for wildlife are diverse, common and have profound
consequences for wildlife–pathogen interactions, as demonstrated by papers in this themed …