Potential zoonotic sources of SARS‐CoV‐2 infections

WK Jo, EF de Oliveira‐Filho, A Rasche… - Transboundary and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) causing coronavirus
disease‐2019 (COVID‐19) likely has evolutionary origins in other animals than humans …

[LIVRE][B] Big farms make big flu: dispatches on influenza, agribusiness, and the nature of science

R Wallace - 2016 - books.google.com
The first collection to explore infectious disease, agriculture, economics, and the nature of
science together Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has …

Overview of bat and wildlife coronavirus surveillance in Africa: a framework for global investigations

M Geldenhuys, M Mortlock, JH Epstein, JT Pawęska… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had devastating health
and socio-economic impacts. Human activities, especially at the wildlife interphase, are at …

Evidence for an ancestral association of human coronavirus 229E with bats

VM Corman, HJ Baldwin, AF Tateno… - Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
We previously showed that close relatives of human coronavirus 229E (HCoV-229E) exist in
African bats. The small sample and limited genomic characterizations have prevented …

[LIVRE][B] Pandemia e agronegócio: doenças infecciosas, capitalismo e ciência

R Wallace - 2020 - books.google.com
Pandemia e agronegócio: doenças infecciosas, capitalismo e ciência, de Rob Wallace,
defende que os novos vírus que há alguns anos amedrontam o planeta com epidemias e …

Bat species assemblage predicts coronavirus prevalence

M Meyer, DW Melville, HJ Baldwin, K Wilhelm… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Anthropogenic disturbances and the subsequent loss of biodiversity are altering species
abundances and communities. Since species vary in their pathogen competence, spatio …

Highly divergent hepaciviruses from African cattle

VM Corman, A Grundhoff, C Baechlein… - Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
The hepatitis C virus (HCV; genus Hepacivirus) is a highly relevant human pathogen.
Unique hepaciviruses (HV) were discovered recently in animal hosts. The direct ancestor of …

Ethnobiology of bats: Exploring human-bat inter-relationships in a rapidly changing world

R Rocha, A López-Baucells… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Although elusive due to their mostly nocturnal behavior, bats have fascinated humans for
millennia. From their ubiquitous presence in Mayan mythology to being regarded as …

MHC class II genes mediate susceptibility and resistance to coronavirus infections in bats

DW Schmid, M Meyer, K Wilhelm, T Tilley… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the immunogenetic basis of coronavirus (CoV) susceptibility in major
pathogen reservoirs, such as bats, is central to inferring their zoonotic potential. Members of …

Coronaviruses are abundant and genetically diverse in West and Central African bats, including viruses closely related to human coronaviruses

D Meta Djomsi, A Lacroix, AK Soumah… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bats are at the origin of human coronaviruses, either directly or via an intermediate host. We
tested swabs from 4597 bats (897 from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 2191 from …