Probiotics at war against viruses: what is missing from the picture?

SK Tiwari, LMT Dicks, IV Popov, A Karaseva… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Our world is now facing a multitude of novel infectious diseases. Bacterial infections are
treated with antibiotics, albeit with increasing difficulty as many of the more common causes …

Preserve a voucher specimen! The critical need for integrating natural history collections in infectious disease studies

CW Thompson, KL Phelps, MW Allard, JA Cook… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Despite being nearly 10 months into the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic,
the definitive animal host for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

Isolation of infectious Lloviu virus from Schreiber's bats in Hungary

G Kemenesi, GE Tóth, M Mayora-Neto, S Scott… - nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Some filoviruses can be transmitted to humans by zoonotic spillover events from their
natural host and filovirus outbreaks have occured with increasing frequency in the last years …

Immune system modulation and viral persistence in bats: understanding viral spillover

S Subudhi, N Rapin, V Misra - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Bats harbor a myriad of viruses and some of these viruses may have spilled over to other
species including humans. Spillover events are rare and several factors must align to create …

Filovirus disease outbreaks: a chronological overview

S Languon, O Quaye - Virology: research and treatment, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Filoviruses cause outbreaks which lead to high fatality in humans and non-human primates,
thus tagging them as major threats to public health and species conservation. In this review …

Forty-two years of responding to Ebola virus outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review

S Rugarabamu, L Mboera, M Rweyemamu… - BMJ Global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction Ebola virus disease (EVD) is one of the deadliest haemorrhagic fevers affecting
humans and non-human primates. Thirty-four outbreaks have been reported in Africa since it …

Setting the terms for zoonotic diseases: effective communication for research, conservation, and public policy

JT Shapiro, L Víquez-R, S Leopardi, A Vicente-Santos… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Many of the world's most pressing issues, such as the emergence of zoonotic diseases, can
only be addressed through interdisciplinary research. However, the findings of …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers: Virus Diversity, Vector Ecology, and Public Health Strategies

R Hewson - Pathogens, 2024 - mdpi.com
Viral haemorrhagic fevers encompass a diverse group of severe, often life-threatening
illnesses caused by viruses from multiple families, including Arenaviridae, Filoviridae …

Gut microbiota of bats: pro-mutagenic properties and possible frontiers in preventing emerging disease

IV Popov, MS Mazanko, ED Kulaeva, SN Golovin… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Bats are potential natural reservoirs for emerging viruses, causing deadly human diseases,
such as COVID-19, MERS, SARS, Nipah, Hendra, and Ebola infections. The fundamental …

Selective deforestation and exposure of African wildlife to bat-borne viruses

P Fedurek, C Asiimwe, GK Rice… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Proposed mechanisms of zoonotic virus spillover often posit that wildlife transmission and
amplification precede human outbreaks. Between 2006 and 2012, the palm Raphia …