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 …

In recent years, negative-sense RNA virus classification and taxon nomenclature have
undergone considerable transformation. In 2016, the new order Bunyavirales was …

Bats have been increasingly gaining attention as potential reservoir hosts of some of the
most virulent viruses known. Numerous review articles summarize bats as potential reservoir …

Bats are a unique but diverse group of mammals in the order Chiroptera (meaning “hand-
wings” in Greek), which is the second largest order of mammals in terms of species number …

(1) Background: Bartonella spp. are zoonotic bacteria with small mammals as main
reservoirs. Bartonella spp. prevalence in small mammals from Myanmar and Sri Lanka are …

BACKGROUND Bat-borne hantaviruses have been identified worldwide but little is known
about neotropical bats in the megadiverse biomes of the American continent. Although …

The genus Miniopterus is a monophyletic assemblage of many species characterized by
remarkably conservative morphology. The number of recognized species has more than …

In July 2017, an investigation into the cause of neurological signs in a black flying fox
(Pteropus alecto, family Pteropodidae) identified a putative novel hantavirus (Robina virus …

Small mammals present in areas where hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS)
cases had occurred in central and southern Chile were captured and analyzed to evaluate …

In the past ten years, several novel hantaviruses were discovered in shrews, moles, and
bats, suggesting the dispersal of hantaviruses in many animal taxa other than rodents during …