Antiviral surfaces and coatings and their mechanisms of action

PD Rakowska, M Tiddia, N Faruqui, C Bankier… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Viral infections are a serious health challenge, and the COVID-19 pandemic has increased
the demand for antiviral measures and treatments for clean surfaces, especially in public …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond diversity loss and climate change: Impacts of Amazon deforestation on infectious diseases and public health

JH Ellwanger, B Kulmann-Leal, VL Kaminski… - Anais da Academia …, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Amazonian biodiversity is increasingly threatened due to the weakening of policies for
combating deforestation, especially in Brazil. Loss of animal and plant species, many not yet …

Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk

CJ Carlson, GF Albery, C Merow, CH Trisos, CM Zipfel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
At least 10,000 virus species have the ability to infect humans but, at present, the vast
majority are circulating silently in wild mammals 1, 2. However, changes in climate and land …

Impacts of biodiversity and biodiversity loss on zoonotic diseases

F Keesing, RS Ostfeld - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases of humans caused by pathogens that are shared
between humans and other vertebrate animals. Previously, pristine natural areas with high …

Ranking the risk of animal-to-human spillover for newly discovered viruses

ZL Grange, T Goldstein, CK Johnson… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The death toll and economic loss resulting from the severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic are stark reminders that we are vulnerable to …

Host and viral traits predict zoonotic spillover from mammals

KJ Olival, PR Hosseini, C Zambrana-Torrelio, N Ross… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The majority of human emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, with viruses that originate
in wild mammals of particular concern (for example, HIV, Ebola and SARS),,. Understanding …

Pathways to zoonotic spillover

RK Plowright, CR Parrish, H McCallum… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Zoonotic spillover, which is the transmission of a pathogen from a vertebrate animal to a
human, presents a global public health burden but is a poorly understood phenomenon …

Zoonotic spillover: Understanding basic aspects for better prevention

JH Ellwanger, JAB Chies - Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
The transmission of pathogens from wild animals to humans is called “zoonotic spillover”.
Most human infectious diseases (60-75%) are derived from pathogens that originally …

The global virome project

D Carroll, P Daszak, ND Wolfe, GF Gao, CM Morel… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Outbreaks of novel and deadly viruses highlight global vulnerability to emerging diseases,
with many having massive health and economic impacts. Our adaptive toolkit—based …

SARS-CoV-2 in environmental perspective: Occurrence, persistence, surveillance, inactivation and challenges

SV Mohan, M Hemalatha, H Kopperi, I Ranjith… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
The unprecedented global spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused
by SARS-CoV-2 is depicting the distressing pandemic consequence on human health …