ArticleEcoHealth2017
Seasonal Fluctuations of Astrovirus, But Not Coronavirus Shedding in Bats Inhabiting Human-Modified Tropical Forests.
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- Influence of Host and Landscape-Associated Factors in the Infection and Transmission of Pathogens: The Case of Directly Transmitted Virus in Mammals.Veterinary medicine and science · 2025Pooled it
- Viral Co-Infection in Bats: A Systematic Review.Viruses · 2023Pooled it
- Coronavirus sampling and surveillance in bats from 1996-2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Nature microbiology · 2023Pooled it
- Astrovirus infection alters gut microbial communities in a widespread neotropical bat across human-modified landscapes.BMC microbiology · 2026Article
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- Virus-host associations of bat coronaviruses along a land-use gradient in the Yucatán Peninsula, México.Virus evolution · 2026Article
- Virome and Microbiome of Florida Bats Illuminate Viral Co-Infections, Dietary Viral Signals, and Gut Microbiome Shifts.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Evaluation of long-term immunity following inoculation with highly diverse orthomarburgvirus isolates in Egyptian rousette bats (Journal of virology · 2025Article
- Role of individual and population heterogeneity in shaping dynamics of multi-pathogen shedding in an island endemic bat.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
- Assessing coupling coordination between human-animal-environmental health for advancing uniform progress in One Health.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Bat Viral Shedding: A Review of Seasonal Patterns and Risk Factors.Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2025Review
- High astrovirus diversity in an endemic bat species suggests multiple spillovers from synanthropic rodents and birds.Journal of virology · 2025Article
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- Astroviruses in terrestrial Malagasy mammals.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Ecological countermeasures to prevent pathogen spillover and subsequent pandemics.Nature communications · 2024Review
- Robust evidence for bats as reservoir hosts is lacking in most African virus studies: a review and call to optimize sampling and conserve bats.Biology letters · 2023Review
- Using drivers and transmission pathways to identify SARS-like coronavirus spillover risk hotspots.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Synchronicity of viral shedding in molossid bat maternity colonies.Epidemiology and infection · 2023Article
- Ecology, evolution and spillover of coronaviruses from bats.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2022Review
- Longitudinal Survey of Coronavirus Circulation and Diversity in Insectivorous Bat Colonies in Zimbabwe.Viruses · 2022Article
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8 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are considered a major threat to global health. Most EIDs appear to result from increased contact between wildlife and humans, especially when humans encroach into formerly pristine habitats. Habitat deterioration may also negatively affect the physiology and health of wildlife species, which may eventually lead to a higher susceptibility to infectious agents and/or increased shedding of the pathogens causing EIDs. Bats are known to host viruses closely related to important EIDs. Here, we tested in a paleotropical forest with ongoing logging and fragmentation, whether habitat disturbance influences the occurrence of astro- and coronaviruses in eight bat species. In contrast to our hypothesis, anthropogenic habitat disturbance was not associated with corona- and astrovirus detection rates in fecal samples. However, we found that bats infected with either astro- or coronaviruses were likely to be coinfected with the respective other virus. Additionally, we identified two more risk factors influencing astrovirus shedding. First, the detection rate of astroviruses was higher at the beginning of the rainy compared to the dry season. Second, there was a trend that individuals with a poor body condition had a higher probability of shedding astroviruses in their feces. The identification of risk factors for increased viral shedding that may potentially result in increased interspecies transmission is important to prevent viral spillovers from bats to other animals, including humans.
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