Bats as 'special' reservoirs for emerging zoonotic pathogens

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 172-180

  Brook, Cara E ^a   Dobson, Andrew P ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Emerging zoonotic pathogens; Immunological tolerance; Immunopathology; Reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BAT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FUNGAL STRAIN; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LONGEVITY; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORBIDITY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITE; PARASITOSIS; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

CHIROPTERA;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MITOCHONDRIA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84936985324     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2014.12.004     Document Type: Review

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