ArticleEcoHealth2021
Ecological and Conservation Significance of Herpesvirus Infection in Neotropical Bats.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- 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
- Virome Diversity in Three Bat Species in Different Environments in Southern Spain.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Virus-Dependent Geographic Structure of Co-Circulating Viruses in a Single Bat Species.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- A general framework for modeling pathogen transmission in co-roosting host communities.Ecology · 2026Article
- Bat things come in threes: within-host dynamics of herpesvirus triple infection in 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
- Molecular survey of herpesviruses in bats from Chile and Spain reveals potentially novel species.Veterinary research communications · 2025Article
- Novel Betaherpesviruses in Neotropical Bats on the Caribbean Island of St. Kitts: First Report from Antillean Tree Bats (Microorganisms · 2024Article
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- Longitudinal deep sequencing informs vector selection and future deployment strategies for transmissible vaccines.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- Alphavirus Identification in Neotropical Bats.Viruses · 2022Article
- Viral Metagenomic Data Analyses of Five New World Bat Species from Argentina: Identification of 35 Novel DNA Viruses.Microorganisms · 2022Article
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5 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Bats are the second most diverse order of mammals and key species for ecosystem functioning, providing a wide range of ecosystem services, from pest control to seed dispersal. Chiropterans are known for hosting a large diversity of viruses, in some cases with little or no effect to their health. Here, we report on the results of a screening for DNA (Herpesviridae) and RNA viruses (Rhabdovirus and Pneumovirus), finding a high prevalence and wide diversity of both Beta- and Gamma-Herpesvirus in insectivorous and hematophagous bats of the southern cone of South America. Our findings suggest that bats in the southern neotropics harbor a high diversity of herpesviruses and, at least in some cases, the viral community in the bat species is more strongly associated with ecological traits of the hosts, rather than their taxonomy. The presence of a separate clade into the Gammaherpesvirinae subfamily in the common vampire bat suggests the independent circulation of herpesviruses in hematophagous and insectivorous bats and highlights the properness of these viruses to track vampire bats' population structure for rabies studies. Hence, we suggest that as other pathogens viruses may be used to track the population dynamics of their hosts, including movement and demographics.
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