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 …

A perspective on lyssavirus emergence and perpetuation

CE Rupprecht, A Turmelle, IV Kuzmin - Current opinion in virology, 2011 - Elsevier
Rabies is propagated globally by viruses in the Family Rhabdoviridae, Genus Lyssavirus.
These RNA viruses utilize the mammalian central nervous system as their ultimate niche …

Host and viral ecology determine bat rabies seasonality and maintenance

DB George, CT Webb, ML Farnsworth… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Rabies is an acute viral infection that is typically fatal. Most rabies modeling has focused on
disease dynamics and control within terrestrial mammals (eg, raccoons and foxes). As such …

Analysis of rabies in China: transmission dynamics and control

J Zhang, Z Jin, GQ Sun, T Zhou, S Ruan - PLoS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Human rabies is one of the major public-health problems in China. The number of human
rabies cases has increased dramatically in the last 15 years, partially due to the poor …

Long-term survival of an urban fruit bat seropositive for Ebola and Lagos bat viruses

DTS Hayman, P Emmerich, M Yu, LF Wang, R Suu-Ire… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Ebolaviruses (EBOV)(family Filoviridae) cause viral hemorrhagic fevers in humans and non-
human primates when they spill over from their wildlife reservoir hosts with case fatality rates …

[HTML][HTML] Fractional modeling and optimal control analysis of rabies virus under the convex incidence rate

R Zarin, I Ahmed, P Kumam, A Zeb, A Din - Results in Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
In this article, deterministic and fractional properties of the epidemic model for rabies
considered with convex incidence rate are discussed. The dynamics are studied without …

Modeling the transmission dynamics and control of rabies in China

S Ruan - Mathematical biosciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Human rabies was first recorded in ancient China in about 556 BC and is still one of the
major public-health problems in China. From 1950 to 2015, 130,494 human rabies cases …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical and theoretical analysis of Rabies model under the harmonic mean type incidence rate

A Khan, R Zarin, I Ahmed, A Yusuf, UW Humphries - Results in Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, rabies virus transmission has affected the community widely. Therefore, the
study of this deadly virus transmission acquires a significant place in the epidemic …

Roosting ecology and variation in adaptive and innate immune system function in the Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis)

LC Allen, AS Turmelle, MT Mendonça… - Journal of Comparative …, 2009 - Springer
Bats have recently been implicated as reservoirs of important emerging diseases. However,
few studies have examined immune responses in bats, and even fewer have evaluated …

Ecology of Rabies Virus Exposure in Colonies of Brazilian Free-Tailed Bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) at Natural and Man-Made Roosts in Texas

AS Turmelle, LC Allen, FR Jackson… - Vector-Borne and …, 2010 - liebertpub.com
Previous studies have investigated rabies virus (RABV) epizootiology in Brazilian free-tailed
bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) in natural cave roosts. However, little is known about geographic …