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Ecology of Zoonotic Infectious Diseases in Bats: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

Overview of attention for article published in Zoonoses & Public Health, September 2012
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Title
Ecology of Zoonotic Infectious Diseases in Bats: Current Knowledge and Future Directions
Published in
Zoonoses & Public Health, September 2012
DOI 10.1111/zph.12000
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Authors

D. T. S. Hayman, R. A. Bowen, P. M. Cryan, G. F. McCracken, T. J. O’Shea, A. J. Peel, A. Gilbert, C. T. Webb, J. L. N. Wood

Abstract

Bats are hosts to a range of zoonotic and potentially zoonotic pathogens. Human activities that increase exposure to bats will likely increase the opportunity for infections to spill over in the future. Ecological drivers of pathogen spillover and emergence in novel hosts, including humans, involve a complex mixture of processes, and understanding these complexities may aid in predicting spillover. In particular, only once the pathogen and host ecologies are known can the impacts of anthropogenic changes be fully appreciated. Cross-disciplinary approaches are required to understand how host and pathogen ecology interact. Bats differ from other sylvatic disease reservoirs because of their unique and diverse lifestyles, including their ability to fly, often highly gregarious social structures, long lifespans and low fecundity rates. We highlight how these traits may affect infection dynamics and how both host and pathogen traits may interact to affect infection dynamics. We identify key questions relating to the ecology of infectious diseases in bats and propose that a combination of field and laboratory studies are needed to create data-driven mechanistic models to elucidate those aspects of bat ecology that are most critical to the dynamics of emerging bat viruses. If commonalities can be found, then predicting the dynamics of newly emerging diseases may be possible. This modelling approach will be particularly important in scenarios when population surveillance data are unavailable and when it is unclear which aspects of host ecology are driving infection dynamics.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 8 1%
United States 5 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
South Africa 2 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Other 5 <1%
Unknown 520 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 93 17%
Student > Master 91 17%
Researcher 83 15%
Student > Bachelor 73 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 30 5%
Other 80 15%
Unknown 98 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 211 39%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 54 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 39 7%
Environmental Science 38 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 25 5%
Other 59 11%
Unknown 122 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 October 2022.
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#1,360,117
of 25,391,701 outputs
Outputs from Zoonoses & Public Health
#47
of 1,187 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,107
of 187,137 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Zoonoses & Public Health
#5
of 32 outputs
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