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| Title |
Bats and zoonotic viruses: can we confidently link bats with emerging deadly viruses?
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| Published in |
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, February 2015
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| DOI | 10.1590/0074-02760150048 |
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| Authors |
Ricardo Moratelli, Charles H Calisher |
| Abstract |
An increasingly asked question is 'can we confidently link bats with emerging viruses?'. No, or not yet, is the qualified answer based on the evidence available. Although more than 200 viruses - some of them deadly zoonotic viruses - have been isolated from or otherwise detected in bats, the supposed connections between bats, bat viruses and human diseases have been raised more on speculation than on evidence supporting their direct or indirect roles in the epidemiology of diseases (except for rabies). However, we are convinced that the evidence points in that direction and that at some point it will be proved that bats are competent hosts for at least a few zoonotic viruses. In this review, we cover aspects of bat biology, ecology and evolution that might be relevant in medical investigations and we provide a historical synthesis of some disease outbreaks causally linked to bats. We provide evolutionary-based hypotheses to tentatively explain the viral transmission route through mammalian intermediate hosts and to explain the geographic concentration of most outbreaks, but both are no more than speculations that still require formal assessment. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 16 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 25% |
| Belgium | 1 | 6% |
| Austria | 1 | 6% |
| Portugal | 1 | 6% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 6% |
| India | 1 | 6% |
| Australia | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 5 | 31% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 94% |
| Scientists | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 494 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1% |
| Brazil | 3 | <1% |
| Colombia | 2 | <1% |
| France | 2 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| China | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 475 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 92 | 19% |
| Researcher | 84 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 81 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 51 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 24 | 5% |
| Other | 72 | 15% |
| Unknown | 90 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 177 | 36% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 46 | 9% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 37 | 7% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 33 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 32 | 6% |
| Other | 59 | 12% |
| Unknown | 110 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 52. 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 23 March 2021.
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