ReviewOne health (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2023
Assessing the threat of bat-associated fungal pathogens.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Leptospira in Brazilian Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera): A Systematic Review.Veterinary medicine and science · 2025Pooled it
- Cave microbial communities are structured by environmental matrix and depth and can be characterized with field-portable assays.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Screening of yeasts in the oral microbiota of bats (Chiroptera) in Piauí, Brazil.New microbes and new infections · 2025Article
- Detection ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- How cryptic animal vectors of fungi can influence forest health in a changing climate and how to anticipate them.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2025Review
- Habitat sharing and interspecies interactions in caves used by bats in the Republic of Congo.PeerJ · 2025Article
- Eukaryotic gut community of the batPeerJ · 2025Article
- Microbial community dynamics in blood, faeces and oral secretions of neotropical bats in Casanare, Colombia.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Bat Ecology and Microbiome of the Gut: A Narrative Review of Associated Potentials in Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Understanding the role of bats as fungal vectors in the environment.IMA fungus · 2024Article
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Abstract
Fungal pathogens have become an increasingly important topic in recent decades. Yet whilst various cankers and blights have gained attention in temperate woodlands and crops, the scope for fungal pathogens of animals and their potential threat has received far less attention. With a shifting climate, the threat from fungal pathogens is predicted to increase in the future, thus understanding the spread of fungi over landscapes as well as taxa that may be at risk is of particular importance. Cave ecosystems provide potential refugia for various fungi, and roosts for bats. With their well vascularized wings and wide-ranging distributions, bats present potential fungal vectors. Furthermore, whilst bat immune systems are generally robust to bacterial and viral pathogens, they can be susceptible to fungal pathogens, particularly during periods of stress such as hibernation. Here we explore why bats are important and interesting vectors for fungi across landscapes and discuss knowledge gaps that require further research.
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