ArticleVaccines2020
Identifying Suspect Bat Reservoirs of Emerging Infections.
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- Paramyxoviruses in Old World fruit bats (Pteropodidae): An open database and synthesis of sampling effort, viral positivity, and coevolution.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Coronavirus sampling and surveillance in bats from 1996-2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Nature microbiology · 2023Pooled it
- Current knowledge on the host-pathogen interactions of henipaviruses and novel platforms to enable further characterisation.EBioMedicine · 2026Review
- Bat Viral Shedding: A Review of Seasonal Patterns and Risk Factors.Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2025Review
- Jamaican fruit bats' competence for Ebola but not Marburg virus is driven by intrinsic differences.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Genetic Diversity and Geographic Spread of Henipaviruses.Emerging infectious diseases · 2025Review
- Marburg and Sudan viruses elicit divergent interferon responses and cytokine storm signaling in Egyptian rousette bat macrophages.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Ecological and evolutionary characteristics of anthropogenic roosting ability in bats of the world.iScience · 2024Article
- 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
- Antiviral responses in a Jamaican fruit bat intestinal organoid model of SARS-CoV-2 infection.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Optimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs.The Lancet. Microbe · 2022Review
- Morphological and quantitative analysis of leukocytes in free-living Australian black flying foxes (Pteropus alecto).PloS one · 2022Article
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- From Protein to Pandemic: The Transdisciplinary Approach Needed to Prevent Spillover and the Next Pandemic.Viruses · 2021Review
- Taxonomic resolution affects host-parasite association model performance.Parasitology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Bats host a number of pathogens that cause severe disease and onward transmission in humans and domestic animals. Some of these pathogens, including henipaviruses and filoviruses, are considered a concern for future pandemics. There has been substantial effort to identify these viruses in bats. However, the reservoir hosts for Ebola virus are still unknown and henipaviruses are largely uncharacterized across their distribution. Identifying reservoir species is critical in understanding the viral ecology within these hosts and the conditions that lead to spillover. We collated surveillance data to identify taxonomic patterns in prevalence and seroprevalence and to assess sampling efforts across species. We systematically collected data on filovirus and henipavirus detections and used a machine-learning algorithm, phylofactorization, in order to search the bat phylogeny for cladistic patterns in filovirus and henipavirus infection, accounting for sampling efforts. Across sampled bat species, evidence for filovirus infection was widely dispersed across the sampled phylogeny. We found major gaps in filovirus sampling in bats, especially in Western Hemisphere species. Evidence for henipavirus infection was clustered within the Pteropodidae; however, no other clades have been as intensely sampled. The major predictor of filovirus and henipavirus exposure or infection was sampling effort. Based on these results, we recommend expanding surveillance for these pathogens across the bat phylogenetic tree.
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