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Can Bats Serve as Reservoirs for Arboviruses?
Review in Viruses, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Río Negro virus (Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus complex) shows pathogenic potential in a permissive murine model.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
- Exploratory metatranscriptomic survey of bat-associated RNA viruses in Quzhou city, China.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Bat Dicer antiviral role and subcellular localization differ upon alphavirus infection in two distinct species.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
- Viral epidemic potential is not uniformly distributed across the bat phylogeny.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Investigating the gut bacteria structure and function of hibernating bats through 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing and culturomics.mSystems · 2025Article
- Bacterial effector screening reveals RNF214 as a virus restriction factor in mammals.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
- Prevalence ofOne health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Revisiting the risk of introduction of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) into the United States - An updated semi-quantitative risk assessment.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Bacterial Effector Screening Reveals RNF214 as a Virus Restriction Factor in Mammals.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- A scoping review of evidence of naturally occurring Japanese encephalitis infection in vertebrate animals other than humans, ardeid birds and pigs.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
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- Temperature sensitivity of bat antibodies links metabolic state of bats with antigen-recognition diversity.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Tick-borne viruses and their risk to public health in the Caribbean: Spotlight on bats as reservoirs in Cuba.Heliyon · 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
- Molecular Detection ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Bats are known to harbor and transmit many emerging and re-emerging viruses, many of which are extremely pathogenic in humans but do not cause overt pathology in their bat reservoir hosts: henipaviruses (Nipah and Hendra), filoviruses (Ebola and Marburg), and coronaviruses (SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV). Direct transmission cycles are often implicated in these outbreaks, with virus shed in bat feces, urine, and saliva. An additional mode of virus transmission between bats and humans requiring further exploration is the spread of disease via arthropod vectors. Despite the shared ecological niches that bats fill with many hematophagous arthropods (e.g. mosquitoes, ticks, biting midges, etc.) known to play a role in the transmission of medically important arboviruses, knowledge surrounding the potential for bats to act as reservoirs for arboviruses is limited. To this end, a comprehensive literature review was undertaken examining the current understanding and potential for bats to act as reservoirs for viruses transmitted by blood-feeding arthropods. Serosurveillance and viral isolation from either free-ranging or captive bats are described in relation to four arboviral groups (
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