The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 highlights a need for evidence-based strategies to monitor
bat viruses. We performed a systematic review of coronavirus sampling (testing for RNA …

INTRODUCTION Infectious disease outbreaks among wildlife have surged in recent
decades alongside global climate change. However, the circumstances under which climate …

Co-infection is an underappreciated phenomenon in contemporary disease ecology despite
its ubiquity and importance in nature. Viruses, and other co-infecting agents, can interact in …

Bats are known reservoirs of a wide variety of viruses that rarely result in overt clinical
disease in the bat host. However, anthropogenic influences on the landscape and climate …

In the past decade, a large number of studies have detected herpesvirus sequences from
many bat species around the world. Nevertheless, the discovery of bat herpesviruses is …

Fungi are increasingly being documented as causing disease in a wide range of faunal
species, including Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the fungus responsible for white nose …

Bats have gained cumulative attention as potential reservoirs for viruses, being crucial to
increase our ability to predict viral prevalence and transmissions, as well as support the …

While bats are often viewed as carriers of infectious disease agents, little research has been
conducted on the effects these pathogens may have on the bat populations themselves. The …

While bats carry a diverse range of ectoparasites, little research has been conducted on the
effects these organisms may have on bat populations. The southern bent-winged bat …

Herpesviruses are large double-stranded DNA viruses that cause infections in animals and
humans with a characteristic of latent infectious within specific tissues. Bats are natural hosts …