Bat-borne virus diversity, spillover and emergence

M Letko, SN Seifert, KJ Olival, RK Plowright… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Most viral pathogens in humans have animal origins and arose through cross-species
transmission. Over the past 50 years, several viruses, including Ebola virus, Marburg virus …

Novel insights into immune systems of bats

A Banerjee, ML Baker, K Kulcsar, V Misra… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, viruses similar to those that cause serious disease in humans and other
mammals have been detected in apparently healthy bats. These include filoviruses …

[HTML][HTML] Asymptomatic infection of Marburg virus reservoir bats is explained by a strategy of immunoprotective disease tolerance

JC Guito, JB Prescott, CE Arnold, BR Amman… - Current biology, 2021 - cell.com
Marburg virus (MARV) is among the most virulent pathogens of primates, including humans.
Contributors to severe MARV disease include immune response suppression and …

Jamaican fruit bats mount a stable and highly neutralizing antibody response after bat influenza virus infection

S Kessler, P Stegen, S Zhan, M Schwemmle… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Antibodies are an essential component of the antiviral response in many species, but to
date, there is no compelling evidence that bats are capable of eliciting a robust humoral …

Coordinated inflammatory responses dictate Marburg virus control by reservoir bats

JC Guito, SGM Kirejczyk, AJ Schuh, BR Amman… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Bats are increasingly recognized as reservoirs of emerging zoonotic pathogens. Egyptian
rousette bats (ERBs) are the known reservoir of Marburg virus (MARV), a filovirus that …

Applications of VirScan to broad serological profiling of bat reservoirs for emerging zoonoses

EC Ruhs, WN Chia, R Foo, AJ Peel, Y Li… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Bats are important providers of ecosystem services such as pollination, seed
dispersal, and insect control but also act as natural reservoirs for virulent zoonotic viruses …

Genomic features of humoral immunity support tolerance model in Egyptian rousette bats

PA Larson, ML Bartlett, K Garcia, J Chitty… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Bats asymptomatically harbor many viruses that can cause severe human diseases. The
Egyptian rousette bat (ERB) is the only known reservoir for Marburgviruses and Sosuga …

The latest advancements in Sosuga virus (SOSV) research

NM Markarian, L Abrahamyan - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The last 60 years have seen the emergence of several zoonotic viruses, some of which
originate from bats. Among these are Nipah virus, Marburg virus and Ebola viruses, which …

Coronavirus, the king who wanted more than a crown: from common to the highly pathogenic SARS-CoV-2, is the key in the accessory genes?

N Chazal - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), that emerged in late 2019,
is the etiologic agent of the current “coronavirus disease 2019”(COVID-19) pandemic, which …

What is stirring in the reservoir? Modelling mechanisms of henipavirus circulation in fruit bat hosts

EE Glennon, DJ Becker, AJ Peel… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Pathogen circulation among reservoir hosts is a precondition for zoonotic spillover. Unlike
the acute, high morbidity infections typical in spillover hosts, infected reservoir hosts often …