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ReviewFuture microbiology2024

A tale of endurance: bats, viruses and immune dynamics.

Apoorva, Sunit Kumar Singh

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Review in Future microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. DivergentViruses · 2026
    Article
  2. Review
  3. Review
  4. Metagenomic analysis of viral diversity in Portuguese bats.Veterinary research communications · 2025
    Article
  5. Characterization of Three Novel Papillomavirus Genomes in Vampire Bats (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

ApoorvaMolecular Biology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India.ORCID 0000-0001-7563-8816
Sunit Kumar SinghMolecular Biology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India.ORCID 0000-0002-8802-1169

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of highly zoonotic viral infections has propelled bat research forward. The viral outbreaks including Hendra virus, Nipah virus, Marburg virus, Ebola virus, Rabies virus, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, SARS-CoV and the latest SARS-CoV-2 have been epidemiologically linked to various bat species. Bats possess unique immunological characteristics that allow them to serve as a potential viral reservoir. Bats are also known to protect themselves against viruses and maintain their immunity. Therefore, there is a need for in-depth understanding into bat-virus biology to unravel the major factors contributing to the coexistence and spread of viruses.

Indexed as

ChiropteraDisease ReservoirsAnimalsCOVID-19HumansSARS-CoV-2Viral ZoonosesVirus DiseasesVirusesZoonosesadaptive immunitybatsimmune toleranceinnate immunityviruseszoonotic spillover

Identifiers

PMID38648093
PMCPMC11382704

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