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Robust evidence for bats as reservoir hosts is lacking in most African virus studies: a review and call to optimize sampling and conserve bats

Africa experiences frequent emerging disease outbreaks among humans, with bats often proposed as zoonotic pathogen hosts. We comprehensively reviewed virus–bat findings from papers published between 1978 and 2020 to evaluate the evidence that African bats are reservoir and/or bridging hosts for viru...

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Autores principales: Weber, Natalie, Nagy, Martina, Markotter, Wanda, Schaer, Juliane, Puechmaille, Sébastien J., Sutton, Jack, Dávalos, Liliana M., Dusabe, Marie-Claire, Ejotre, Imran, Fenton, M. Brock, Knörnschild, Mirjam, López-Baucells, Adrià, Medellin, Rodrigo A., Metz, Markus, Mubareka, Samira, Nsengimana, Olivier, O'Mara, M. Teague, Racey, Paul A., Tuttle, Merlin, Twizeyimana, Innocent, Vicente-Santos, Amanda, Tschapka, Marco, Voigt, Christian C., Wikelski, Martin, Dechmann, Dina K.N., Reeder, DeeAnn M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10646460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37964576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0358