Bats and viruses: a death-defying friendship

Abstract Bats have a primeval evolutionary origin and have adopted various survival methods. They have played a central role in the emergence of various viral diseases. The sustenance of a plethora of virus species inside them has been an earnest area of study. This review explains how the evolution of viruses in bats has been linked to their metabolic pathways, flight abilities, reproductive abilities and colonization behaviors. The utilization of host immune response by DNA and RNA viruses is a commencement of the understanding of differences in the impact of viral infection in bats from other mammals. Rabies virus and other lyssa viruses have had long documented history as bat viruses. While many others like Ebola virus, Nipah virus, Hantavirus, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and other new emerging viruses like Sosuga virus, Menangle and Tioman virus are now being studied extensively for their transmission in new hosts. The ongoing pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus has also been implicated to be originated from bats. Certain factors have been linked to spillover events while the scope of entitlement of other conditions in the spread of diseases from bats still exists. However, certain physiological and ecological parameters have been linked to specific transmission patterns, and more definite proofs are awaited for establishing these connections..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:32

Enthalten in:

VirusDisease - 32(2021), 3 vom: Sept., Seite 467-479

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gupta, Parakriti [VerfasserIn]
Singh, Mini P. [VerfasserIn]
Goyal, Kapil [VerfasserIn]
Tripti, Pande [VerfasserIn]
Ansari, Mohd Ikram [VerfasserIn]
Obli Rajendran, Vinodhkumar [VerfasserIn]
Dhama, Kuldeep [VerfasserIn]
Malik, Yashpal Singh [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bat
Corona viruses
Ebola virus
Emerging viruses
Hanta virus
Menangle virus
Nipah virus
Rabies virus
Sosuga virus
Tioman virus

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© Indian Virological Society 2021

doi:

10.1007/s13337-021-00716-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC2127907361