[HTML][HTML] Bat-borne virus diversity, spillover and emergence

M Letko, SN Seifert, KJ Olival, RK Plowright… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Most viral pathogens in humans have animal origins and arose through cross-species
transmission. Over the past 50 years, several viruses, including Ebola virus, Marburg virus …

[HTML][HTML] Bats and coronaviruses

A Banerjee, K Kulcsar, V Misra, M Frieman, K Mossman - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Bats are speculated to be reservoirs of several emerging viruses including coronaviruses
(CoVs) that cause serious disease in humans and agricultural animals. These include CoVs …

Global shifts in mammalian population trends reveal key predictors of virus spillover risk

CK Johnson, PL Hitchens… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Emerging infectious diseases in humans are frequently caused by pathogens originating
from animal hosts, and zoonotic disease outbreaks present a major challenge to global …

Nipah virus dynamics in bats and implications for spillover to humans

JH Epstein, SJ Anthony, A Islam… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Nipah virus (NiV) is an emerging bat-borne zoonotic virus that causes near-annual
outbreaks of fatal encephalitis in South Asia—one of the most populous regions on Earth. In …

[HTML][HTML] Pathways to zoonotic spillover

RK Plowright, CR Parrish, H McCallum… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Zoonotic spillover, which is the transmission of a pathogen from a vertebrate animal to a
human, presents a global public health burden but is a poorly understood phenomenon …

One Health, emerging infectious diseases and wildlife: two decades of progress?

AA Cunningham, P Daszak… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Infectious diseases affect people, domestic animals and wildlife alike, with many pathogens
being able to infect multiple species. Fifty years ago, following the wide-scale manufacture …

[HTML][HTML] Novel insights into immune systems of bats

A Banerjee, ML Baker, K Kulcsar, V Misra… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, viruses similar to those that cause serious disease in humans and other
mammals have been detected in apparently healthy bats. These include filoviruses …

[HTML][HTML] The calendar of epidemics: Seasonal cycles of infectious diseases

ME Martinez - PLoS pathogens, 2018 - journals.plos.org
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[HTML][HTML] Bats as 'special'reservoirs for emerging zoonotic pathogens

CE Brook, AP Dobson - Trends in microbiology, 2015 - cell.com
The ongoing West African Ebola epidemic highlights a recurring trend in the zoonotic
emergence of virulent pathogens likely to come from bat reservoirs that has caused …

Investigating the zoonotic origin of the West African Ebola epidemic

A Marí Saéz, S Weiss, K Nowak, V Lapeyre… - EMBO molecular …, 2015 - embopress.org
The severe Ebola virus disease epidemic occurring in West Africa stems from a single
zoonotic transmission event to a 2‐year‐old boy in Meliandou, Guinea. We investigated the …