ReviewMemorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz2015
Bats and zoonotic viruses: can we confidently link bats with emerging deadly viruses?
Review in Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 94 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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94 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Exploratory metatranscriptomic survey of bat-associated RNA viruses in Quzhou city, China.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
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- Cross-Species Surveillance of Respiratory Viruses in Domestic and Wild Mammals of an Urban Atlantic Forest from Brazil.EcoHealth · 2025Article
- Toscana virus - an emerging Mediterranean arbovirus transmitted by sand flies.The Journal of general virology · 2024Review
- Fine-grained image classification on bats using VGG16-CBAM: a practical example with 7 horseshoe bats taxa (CHIROPTERA: Rhinolophidae: Rhinolophus) from Southern China.Frontiers in zoology · 2024Article
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- Impact of climate change on the distribution and predicted habitat suitability of two fruit bats (Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Effects of forest loss and fragmentation on bat-ectoparasite interactions.Parasitology research · 2023Article
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- No molecular evidence for influenza A virus and coronavirus in bats belonging to the families Phyllostomidae, Vespertilionidae, and Molossidae in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2023Article
- The Virome of Bats Inhabiting Brazilian Biomes: Knowledge Gaps and Biases towards Zoonotic Viruses.Microbiology spectrum · 2023Review
- Comparison of microsatellite distribution in the genomes of Pteropus vampyrus and Miniopterus natalensis (Chiroptera).BMC genomic data · 2023Article
- Epidemiology of Ebolaviruses from an Etiological Perspective.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
An increasingly asked question is 'can we confidently link bats with emerging viruses?'. No, or not yet, is the qualified answer based on the evidence available. Although more than 200 viruses - some of them deadly zoonotic viruses - have been isolated from or otherwise detected in bats, the supposed connections between bats, bat viruses and human diseases have been raised more on speculation than on evidence supporting their direct or indirect roles in the epidemiology of diseases (except for rabies). However, we are convinced that the evidence points in that direction and that at some point it will be proved that bats are competent hosts for at least a few zoonotic viruses. In this review, we cover aspects of bat biology, ecology and evolution that might be relevant in medical investigations and we provide a historical synthesis of some disease outbreaks causally linked to bats. We provide evolutionary-based hypotheses to tentatively explain the viral transmission route through mammalian intermediate hosts and to explain the geographic concentration of most outbreaks, but both are no more than speculations that still require formal assessment.
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