A comparison of bats and rodents as reservoirs of zoonotic viruses: are bats special?

Bats are the natural reservoirs of a number of high-impact viral zoonoses. We present a quantitative analysis to address the hypothesis that bats are unique in their propensity to host zoonotic viruses based on a comparison with rodents, another important host order. We found that bats indeed host m...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Luis, Angela D., Hayman, David T. S., O'Shea, Thomas J., Cryan, Paul M., Gilbert, Amy T., Pulliam, Juliet R. C., Mills, James N., Timonin, Mary E., Willis, Craig K. R., Cunningham, Andrew A., Fooks, Anthony R., Rupprecht, Charles E., Wood, James L. N., Webb, Colleen T.
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: The Royal Society 2013
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574368/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23378666
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2753
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