Bats and viruses : a new frontier of emerging infectious diseases /
Approximately 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, and the rate of emergence of zoonotic diseases is on the rise. Bats are being increasingly recognised as an important reservoir of zoonotic viruses of different families, including SARS coronavirus, Nipah virus, Hendra virus and Ebola v...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2015.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- The uniqueness of bats / Paul A. Racey
- Viruses in bats : a historic view / Charles H. Calisher
- Bat iyssaviruses / Ivan Kuzmin and Charles Rupprecht
- Bat paramyxoviruses / Danielle E. Anderson and Glenn A. Marsh
- Bat coronaviruses / Xingye Ge, Ben Hu and Zhengli Shi
- Bat filoviruses / G.D. Maganga, V. Rougerona, E.M. Leroy
- Bats and reverse transcribing RNA and DNA viruses / Gilda Tachedjian, Joshua A. Hayward and Jie Cui
- Bat reoviruses / Claudia Kohl and Andreas Kurth
- Other bat-borne viruses / Suxiang Tong, Krista Queen, Mang Shi and Larry J. Anderson
- Anthropogenic epidemics : the ecology of bat-borne viruses and our role in their emergence / Jon Epstein and Hume Field
- Are bats really 'special' as viral reservoirs? what we know and need to know / Kevin J. Olival, Cristin C. Weekley and Peter Daszak
- Animal models of recently emerged bat-borne viruses / Jackie Pallister and Deborah Middleton
- Bat genomics / James J. Wynne and Mary Tachedjian
- Bat immunology / Michelle L. Baker and Peng Zhou.
