Advances in understanding bat infection dynamics across biological scales

CA Sánchez, KL Phelps, HK Frank… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Over the past two decades, research on bat-associated microbes such as viruses, bacteria
and fungi has dramatically increased. Here, we synthesize themes from a conference …

[HTML][HTML] Geographically widespread and novel hemotropic mycoplasmas and bartonellae in Mexican free-tailed bats and sympatric North American bat species

DJ Becker, KE Dyer, LR Lock, SA Pladas, AA Sukhadia… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Bacterial pathogens remain poorly characterized in bats, especially in North America. We
describe novel (and in some cases panmictic) hemoplasmas (12.9% positivity) and …