Filoviruses in bats: current knowledge and future directions

KJ Olival, DTS Hayman - Viruses, 2014 - mdpi.com
Filoviruses, including Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus, pose significant threats to public health
and species conservation by causing hemorrhagic fever outbreaks with high mortality rates …

Correlation between pseudotyped virus and authentic virus neutralisation assays, a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature

D Cantoni, C Wilkie, EM Bentley… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The virus neutralization assay is a principal method to assess the efficacy of
antibodies in blocking viral entry. Due to biosafety handling requirements of viruses …

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

AD Luis, DTS Hayman, TJ O'Shea… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Ecology of zoonotic infectious diseases in bats: current knowledge and future directions

DTS Hayman, RA Bowen, PM Cryan… - Zoonoses and public …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Bats and lyssaviruses

AC Banyard, D Hayman, N Johnson… - Advances in virus …, 2011 - Elsevier
Numerous bat species have been identified as important reservoirs of zoonotic viral
pathogens. Rabies and rabies-related viruses constitute one of the most important viral …

[HTML][HTML] Metagenomic study of the viruses of African straw-coloured fruit bats: detection of a chiropteran poxvirus and isolation of a novel adenovirus

KS Baker, RM Leggett, NH Bexfield, M Alston, G Daly… - Virology, 2013 - Elsevier
Viral emergence as a result of zoonotic transmission constitutes a continuous public health
threat. Emerging viruses such as SARS coronavirus, hantaviruses and henipaviruses have …

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

N Weber, M Nagy, W Markotter, J Schaer… - Biology …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Africa experiences frequent emerging disease outbreaks among humans, with bats often
proposed as zoonotic pathogen hosts. We comprehensively reviewed virus–bat findings …

Bat‐borne viruses in Africa: a critical review

W Markotter, J Coertse, L De Vries… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In Africa, bat‐borne zoonoses emerged in the past few decades resulting in large outbreaks
or just sporadic spillovers. In addition, hundreds of more viruses are described without any …

Passive immunity in the prevention of rabies

L Both, AC Banyard, C van Dolleweerd… - The Lancet infectious …, 2012 - thelancet.com
Prevention of clinical disease in those exposed to viral infection is an important goal of
human medicine. Using rabies virus infection as an example, we discuss the advances in …

Pseudotype-based neutralization assays for influenza: a systematic analysis

GW Carnell, F Ferrara, K Grehan… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The use of vaccination against the influenza virus remains the most effective method of
mitigating the significant morbidity and mortality caused by this virus. Antibodies elicited by …