Attenuated Infection by a Pteropine Orthoreovirus Isolated From an Egyptian Fruit Bat in Zambia [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021 BackgroundPteropine orthoreovirus (PRV) is an emerging bat-borne zoonotic virus that causes severe respiratory illness in humans. Although PRVs have been identified in fruit bats and humans in Australia and Asia, little is known about the prevalence of ...
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Different but Not Unique: Deciphering the Immunity of the Jamaican Fruit Bat by Studying Its Viriome [PDF]
Viruses, 2022 A specialized and fine-tuned immune response of bats upon infection with viruses is believed to provide the basis for a “friendly” coexistence with these pathogens, which are often lethal for humans and other mammals.
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Diversity and seasonality of ectoparasite burden on two species of Madagascar fruit bat, Eidolon dupreanum and Rousettus madagascariensis [PDF]
Parasites & VectorsBackground Bats are important reservoir hosts for a variety of pathogens, some of which are transmitted by ectoparasite vectors including mites, fleas, lice, ticks, and bat flies (families Nycteribiidae and Streblidae).
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2018 Pollination and seed dispersal are two important phases of the reproductive cycle in plants and are usually performed by different groups of animal taxa in tropics.
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Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) insusceptibility to mucosal inoculation with SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is not caused by receptor compatibility [PDF]
npj VirusesThe ancestral sarbecovirus giving rise to SARS-CoV-2 is posited to have originated in bats. While SARS-CoV-2 causes asymptomatic to severe respiratory disease in humans, little is known about the biology, virus tropism, and immunity of SARS-CoV-2-like ...
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Isolation of Genetically Diverse Marburg Viruses From Egyptian Fruit Bats
PLoS Pathogens, 2009 In July and September 2007, miners working in Kitaka Cave, Uganda, were diagnosed with Marburg hemorrhagic fever. The likely source of infection in the cave was Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) based on detection of Marburg virus RNA in 31/611
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A novel poxvirus isolated from an Egyptian fruit bat in Israel [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2020 An Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) from the Zoological Gardens, at Tel Aviv, Israel, showed pox‐like clinical signs including vesicular and nodular skin lesions on the wings.
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The presence of wingless bat flies [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and WildlifeBat ectoparasites are important components of bat communities and have close ecological relationships with their hosts. Eucampsipoda africana ( E. africana ) is a wingless bat fly that parasitizes Egyptian fruit bats ( Rousettus aegyptiacus ), but its ...
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Viruses, 2021 Influenza A viruses (IAV) of subtype H9N2, endemic in world-wide poultry holdings, are reported to cause spill-over infections to pigs and humans and have also contributed substantially to recent reassortment-derived pre-pandemic zoonotic viruses of ...
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Tropical secondary forest management influences frugivorous bat composition, abundance and fruit consumption in Chiapas, Mexico. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Most studies on frugivorous bat assemblages in secondary forests have concentrated on differences among successional stages, and have disregarded the effect of forest management.
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