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Bats and viruses : current research and future trends /

"Bats act as reservoirs for over 200 viruses, many of which cause severe, often life-threatening, diseases in humans, livestock and wildlife. Examples include rabies virus, SARS and MERS coronaviruses and Ebola virus. Surprisingly many of these viruses cause asymptomatic infections in bats. In...

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Other Authors: Corrales-Aguilar, Eugenia (Editor), Schwemmle, Martin (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Norfolk, UK : Caister Academic Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Bats as carriers of disease.
Chiroptera > virology
Disease Reservoirs
Viral Zoonoses > transmission
Host Microbial Interactions
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781912530151
1912530155
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Bats and viruses: introduction
  • Bats and flaviviruses
  • Alphavirus and its vertebrate hosts
  • Bat influenza A-like viruses
  • Bats and coronaviruses
  • Genetic diversity and geographic distribution of bat-borne hantaviruses
  • Bat polyomaviruses: a challenge to the strict host-restriction paradigm within the mammalian polyomaviridae
  • Innate immunity in bats
  • Immune (adaptive) response in bats
  • In vitro isolation of bat viruses using commercial and bat-derived cell lines
  • In vivo models of infection
  • Metagenomics for viral discovery in bats
  • Are bats ‘special’?

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