Bat and virus ecology in a dynamic world
David A Wilkinson A and David TS Hayman A B
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A Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health Laboratory (mEpiLab), Hopkirk Research Institute, Massey University, Private Bag 11-222, Palmerston North, New Zealand
B Email: D.T.S.Hayman@massey.ac.nz
Microbiology Australia 38(1) 33-35 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA17011
Published: 9 February 2017
Abstract
The emergence of infectious diseases caused by bat-associated viruses has had a devastating and wide-reaching effect on human populations. These viruses include lyssaviruses such as rabies virus, the filoviruses, Ebola (EBOV) and Marburg virus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, and the paramyxoviruses, Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV)1. As a result bats have been the focus of substantial research (Fig. 1) and certain cellular and physiological traits of bats are hypothesised to lead to ‘special’ bat-virus associations2,3 (but see Han
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