Immunology of bats and their viruses: Challenges and opportunities

Viruses

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4880-4901

  Schountz, Tony ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Emerging infectious disease; Metabolomics; Reservoir host; RNA seq; Virus ecology; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 29; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL VIRUS; BAT; BAT VIRUS; CELL CULTURE; EBOLA VIRUS; HENDRA VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOLOGY; LLOVIU VIRUS; MARBURG VIRUS; METABOLOMICS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NIPAH VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SOSUGA VIRUS; TACARIBE VIRUS; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VETERINARY; VIRAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

CHIROPTERA; LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS; NIPAH VIRUS; RABIES VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUS PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; VIRUSES;

EID: 84924875427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v6124880     Document Type: Note

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