ReviewViruses2014
Immunology of bats and their viruses: challenges and opportunities.
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58 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 117 citations in OpenAlex.
- Major bat-borne zoonotic viral epidemics in Asia and Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Veterinary medicine and science · 2022Pooled it
- Pathogenesis and host response to a novel Tacaribe virus isolate in experimentally-infected Jamaican fruit bats.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Adapting flow cytometry for studying immune cell seasonality in wild migratory bats.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Emerging technologies for advancing molecular and cellular research in bats.Zoological research · 2026Review
- Annotation of bat IG H/L/K loci and analysis of the characteristics of bat BCR-CDR3 repertoires.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Emerging Vector-Borne Nipah Virus Infection: Unexplored Hazards, Diagnostic Challenges, and the Potential of Phytomedicine-Based Therapeutics.Current pharmaceutical design · 2026Review
- Cellular and immune adaptations at the maternal-fetal interface in bats.Cell reports · 2025Article
- Systemic Effects of Pesticides on Insectivorous Bats: A Proteomics Approach.Integrative and comparative biology · 2025Article
- Morphological and molecular data on the bat flies, Basilia silvae (Brèthes, 1913) and Trichobius parasiticus Gervais, 1844 parasitizing Chilean bats.Medical and veterinary entomology · 2025Article
- Diverse hosts, diverse immune systems: Evolutionary variation in bat immunology.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Serological and molecular analysis of henipavirus infections in synanthropic fruit bat and rodent populations in the Centre and North regions of Cameroon (2018-2020).BMC veterinary research · 2025Article
- Recent Advances in Immunological Landscape and Immunotherapeutic Agent of Nipah Virus Infection.Cell biochemistry and biophysics · 2024Review
- A tale of endurance: bats, viruses and immune dynamics.Future microbiology · 2024Review
- Landscape of IGH germline genes of Chiroptera and the pattern ofMicrobiology spectrum · 2024Article
- Sex differences and individual variability in the captive Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) intestinal microbiome and metabolome.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Interferon-induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeats 5 of black fruit bat (Frontiers in immunology · 2024Article
- Antiviral responses in a Jamaican fruit bat intestinal organoid model of SARS-CoV-2 infection.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Regulatory T cell-like response to SARS-CoV-2 in Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) transduced with human ACE2.PLoS pathogens · 2023Article
- Seasonal Variation of Immunohematological Parameters of the Peripheral Blood in the Pond Bat Myotis dasycneme (Boie, 1825) of the Urals.Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections · 2023Article
- Comparative analyses of bat genomes identify distinct evolution of immunity in Old World fruit bats.Science advances · 2023Article
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Abstract
Bats are reservoir hosts of several high-impact viruses that cause significant human diseases, including Nipah virus, Marburg virus and rabies virus. They also harbor many other viruses that are thought to have caused disease in humans after spillover into intermediate hosts, including SARS and MERS coronaviruses. As is usual with reservoir hosts, these viruses apparently cause little or no pathology in bats. Despite the importance of bats as reservoir hosts of zoonotic and potentially zoonotic agents, virtually nothing is known about the host/virus relationships; principally because few colonies of bats are available for experimental infections, a lack of reagents, methods and expertise for studying bat antiviral responses and immunology, and the difficulty of conducting meaningful field work. These challenges can be addressed, in part, with new technologies that are species-independent that can provide insight into the interactions of bats and viruses, which should clarify how the viruses persist in nature, and what risk factors might facilitate transmission to humans and livestock.
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