Bats are a unique group of mammals of the order Chiroptera. They are highly diversified and
are the group of mammals with the second largest number of species. Such highly …

Bats are being increasingly recognized as an important reservoir of zoonotic viruses of
different families, including SARS coronavirus, Nipah virus, Hendra virus and Ebola virus …

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 …

The lyssaviruses are a diverse group of viruses capable of causing rabies, which is an
invariably fatal encephalitic disease in both humans and animals. Currently, the lyssavirus …

Zoonotic Viruses of Northern Eurasia: Taxonomy and Ecology provides a review of modern
data of the taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of zoonotic viruses in the ecosystems of …

Rhabdoviruses (family Rhabdoviridae) include a diversity of important pathogens of animals
and plants. They share morphology and genome organization. The understanding of …

Bat lyssaviruses Aravan and Khujand were isolated in southern Kyrgyzstan in 1991 and in
northern Tajikistan in 2001, respectively. Preliminary studies with anti-nucleocapsid …

The nucleoprotein (N), phosphoprotein (P) and glycoprotein (G) genes of Irkut and West
Caucasian bat viruses (WCBV) were sequenced and compared with those of other …

RNA viruses of the family Rhabdoviridae include arthropod-borne agents that infect plants,
fish and mammals, and also include a variety of non-vector-borne mammalian viruses …

Bats (Chiroptera) are the only mammals naturally able to fly. Due to this characteristic they
play a relevant ecological role in the niches they inhabit. These mammals spread infectious …