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Human activities link fruit bat presence to Ebola virus disease outbreaks

Mammal Review, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 1-10, January 2020., 2020
Forest loss and fragmentation and outbreaks of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in humans are linked. Deforestation may alter the natural circulation of viruses and change the composition, abundance, behaviour and possibly viral exposure of reservoir species. This in turn might increase contact between infected animals and humans.
Jesús Olivero, Julia E. Fa, Miguel Á. Farfán, Ana L. Márquez, Raimundo Real, F. Javier Juste, Siv A. Leendertz, Robert Nasi   +7 more
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Adaptive Molecular Evolution of AKT3 Gene for Positive Diversifying Selection in Mammals

BioMed Research International, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020., 2020
The V‐Akt Murine Thymoma Viral Oncogene Homolog 3 (AKT3) gene is of the serine/threonine‐protein kinase family and influences the production of milk fats and cholesterol by acting on the sterol administrative area restricting protein (SREBP). The AKT3 gene is highly preserved in animals, and during lactation in cattle, its expression increases.
Farmanullah, Seyed Mahdi Hosseini, Aixin Liang, Guohua Hua, Zia ur Rehman, Hira Sajjad Talpur, Mohammad Salim, Saeed Ahmad, Adili Abulaiti, Momen Khan, Muhammad Safdar, Ihsan Ullah Kakar, Zahoor Ahmad, Muhammad Zulfiqar Ahmad, Ye Tingzhu, Nicola M. Schreurs, Iqra Bano, Liguo Yang, Sankar Subramanian   +18 more
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Excretion dynamics of Henipa-related viruses in the Egyptian Rousette bat and triggers for potential spillover [PDF]

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Purpose: Influenza affects about 10% of the population every year. In the temperate zone, influenza has a unique seasonal pattern with some variations, however, the factors affecting its seasonality and variations are still unclear.
Mortlock, M., /Dietrich, Muriel, Weyer, J., Paweska, J., Markotter, W.   +4 more
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Rousette Bat Dendritic Cells Overcome Marburg Virus-Mediated Antiviral Responses by Upregulation of Interferon-Related Genes While Downregulating Proinflammatory Disease Mediators

mSphere, 2019
Dysregulated and maladaptive immune responses are at the forefront of human diseases caused by infection with zoonotic viral hemorrhagic fever viruses. Elucidating mechanisms of how the natural animal reservoirs of these viruses coexist with these agents
Joseph Prescott, Jonathan C. Guito, Jessica R. Spengler, Catherine E. Arnold, Amy J. Schuh, Brian R. Amman, Tara K. Sealy, Lisa W. Guerrero, Gustavo F. Palacios, Mariano Sanchez-Lockhart, Cesar G. Albariño, Jonathan S. Towner   +11 more
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Thermoregulation by captive and free-ranging Egyptian rousette bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) in South Africa [PDF]

Journal of Mammalogy, 2017
Many bats, including some small-bodied tropical and subtropical Pteropodidae, use torpor to offset energetic constraints. We tested the hypothesis that medium-sized (110–160 g) cave-roosting Egyptian rousette bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) at the southern extent of their range are able to employ torpor.
Barclay, Robert M.R., Jacobs, David S., Harding, Craig T., McKechnie, Andrew E., McCulloch, Stuart D., Markotter, Wanda, Paweska, Janusz, Brigham, R. Mark   +7 more
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Species-specific gene programs define divergent antiviral responses in Marburg virus reservoir bats and humans

Cell Reports
Summary: Bats tolerate viruses that cause severe disease in humans. Egyptian rousette bats, the natural reservoirs of Marburg virus (MARV), sustain asymptomatic infection, whereas humans develop severe and fatal disease.
André Filipe Pastor, Shruti Shirsathe, Santiago Vidal-Freire, Natalia M. Ferressini-Gerpe, Jonathan Guito, Rachel Somavarapu, Juan Angel Patiño-Galindo, Elaina Giannetti, Maya Tagliavia, Heng Pan, Gabriella Worwa, Adolfo García-Sastre, Jonathan S. Towner, Jeffrey R. Johnson, Jens H. Kuhn, Mariano Sanchez-Lockhart, Gustavo Palacios   +16 more
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Authentication of the R06E Fruit Bat Cell Line

Viruses, 2012
Fruit bats and insectivorous bats are believed to provide a natural reservoir for a wide variety of infectious diseases. Several lines of evidence, including the successful isolation of infectious viruses, indicate that Marburg virus and Ravn virus have ...
Ingo Jordan, Volker Sandig, Vincent J. Munster   +2 more
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Vector Competence of Eucampsipoda africana (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) for Marburg Virus Transmission in Rousettus aegyptiacus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae)

Viruses, 2021
This study aimed to determine the vector competence of bat-associated nycteribiid flies (Eucamsipoda africana) for Marburg virus (MARV) in the Egyptian Rousette Bat (ERB), Rousettus aegyptiacus.
Janusz T. Pawęska, Petrus Jansen van Vuren, Nadia Storm, Wanda Markotter, Alan Kemp   +4 more
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Assessment of listing and categorisation of animal diseases within the framework of the Animal Health Law (Regulation (EU) No 2016/429): Ebola virus disease

EFSA Journal, Volume 15, Issue 7, July 2017., 2017
Abstract Ebola virus disease has been assessed according to the criteria of the Animal Health Law (AHL), in particular criteria of Article 7 on disease profile and impacts, Article 5 on the eligibility of Ebola virus disease to be listed, Article 9 for the categorisation of Ebola virus disease according to disease prevention and control rules as in ...
EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW), Simon More, Anette Bøtner, Andrew Butterworth, Paolo Calistri, Klaus Depner, Sandra Edwards, Bruno Garin‐Bastuji, Margaret Good, Christian Gortázar Schmidt, Virginie Michel, Miguel Angel Miranda, Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Mohan Raj, Liisa Sihvonen, Hans Spoolder, Jan Arend Stegeman, Hans‐Hermann Thulke, Antonio Velarde, Preben Willeberg, Christoph Winckler, Francesca Baldinelli, Alessandro Broglia, Beatriz Beltrán Beck, Lisa Kohnle, Joana Morgado, Dominique Bicout   +26 more
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Increasing Occurrence of Marburg Virus Outbreaks in Africa: Risk Assessment for Public Health

Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 18, Issue 9, September 2025.
Bat and Marburg virus (Filovirus). Left: A Rousettus aegyptiacus bat; Center: a distribution map of R. aegyptiacus; Right: EM of Marburg virus. (figure credits: Left Wikipedia Nilflughund Lithuanian Zoological Gardens, Center; Center: Wikipedia Nilflughund IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, right Wikipedia Marburg virus CDC Fred Murphy; J.
Harald Brüssow
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