Ecology of Zoonotic Infectious Diseases in Bats: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2-21

  Hayman, D T S ^a,b,c,d   Bowen, R A ^b   Cryan, P M ^e   Mccracken, G F ^f   O'Shea, T J ^e   Peel, A J ^a,c   Gilbert, A ^g   Webb, C T ^b   Wood, J L N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^e FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronavirus; Epidemiology; Filovirus; Mathematical modeling; Nipah virus; Public health; Rabies; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRUS; BAT; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; FINCH; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES VIRUS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL; VIRULENCE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; ZOONOSES;

CORONAVIRUS; MARBURGVIRUS; NIPAH VIRUS;

EID: 84872276379     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/zph.12000     Document Type: Article

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