Highlights•Pathogen discovery is critically important to infectious diseases and public
health.•Nearly all new outbreaks are caused by the emergence of novel viruses.•Genomic …

The risk of spillover of enzootic paramyxoviruses and the susceptibility of recipient human
and domestic animal populations are defined by a broad collection of ecological and …

Bats in the EU have been associated with several zoonotic viral pathogens of significance to
both human and animal health. Virus discovery continues to expand the existing …

Newcastle disease virus (NDV) has a worldwide distribution, causing lethal infection in a
wide range of avian species. Affected birds develop respiratory, digestive and neurologic …

Paramyxoviruses are a diverse group of negative-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses of
which several species cause significant mortality and morbidity. In recent years the …

Bats are known to be reservoirs of several highly pathogenic viruses. Hence, the interest in
bat virus discovery has been increasing rapidly over the last decade. So far, most studies …

Co-infection is an underappreciated phenomenon in contemporary disease ecology despite
its ubiquity and importance in nature. Viruses, and other co-infecting agents, can interact in …

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 …

Bats are being increasingly recognized as reservoir hosts of highly pathogenic and zoonotic
emerging viruses (Marburg virus, Nipah virus, Hendra virus, Rabies virus, and …

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses authorizes and organizes the
taxonomic classification of viruses. Thus far, the detailed classifications for all viruses are …