Bats and Human Health
Ebola, SARS, Rabies and Beyond
Lisa A. Beltz
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Bats and Human Health
Ebola, SARS, Rabies and Beyond
Lisa A. Beltz
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An important resource that reviews the various infectious diseases that affect bats and bat populations
Bats and Human Health: Ebola, SARS, Rabies and Beyond covers existing literature on viral, bacterial, protozoan, and fungal infections of bats and how these infections affect bat populations. The book also offers an overview of the potential for zoonotic transmission of infectious diseases from bats to humans or domestic animals. While most prior publications on the subject have dealt only with bat viral infections, this text closely covers a wide range of bat infections, from viral and bacterial infections to protist and fungal infections.
Chapters on viral infections cover rabies, filoviruses, henipaviruses, and other RNA viruses, as well as information on bat virome studies. The book then provides information on bacterial infections–including arthropod-borne and other bacteria that affect bats–before moving on to protist infections, including apicomplexans and kinetoplastids, and fungal infections, including white-nose syndrome, histoplasma capsulatum, and other fungi. Comprehensive in scope, yet another key feature of this book is a searchable database that includes bat species, bat family, bat diet, bat location, type and classification of infecting microbes, and categories of microbes. This vital resource also:
- Provides a history and comprehensive overview of bat-borne diseases
- Incorporates information from the World Health Organization, as well as historical data from the National Libraries of Health and infectious disease journals
- Covers a variety of diseases including viral infections, bacterial infections, protist infections, and fungal infections
Written for microbiologist, bat researchers, and conservationists, Bats and Human Health provides a comprehensive exploration of the various types of microbes that affect bats and their potential to affect human populations.
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VIRAL INFECTIONS OF BATS
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RABIES VIRUS AND OTHER BAT RHABDOVIRUSES
2.1 INTRODUCTION TO THE FAMILY RHABDOVIRIDAE
Bat family | Bat common name | Bat species | Rhabdovirus |
Vespertilionidae | Pallid bat | Antrozous pallidus | Rabies virus |
Phyllostomidae | Brown fruit‐eating bat | Artibeus concolor | Rabies virus |
Phyllostomidae | Jamaican fruit‐eating bat | Artibeus jamaicensis | Rabies virus |
Phyllostomidae | Great fruit‐eating bat | Artibeus lituratus | Rabies virus |
Vespertilionidae | Western barbastelle | Barastella barastellus | EBLV‐1 |
Phyllostomidae | Seba’s short‐tailed bat | Carollia perspicillata | Rabies virus |
Phyllostomidae | Gray short‐tailed bat | Carollia subrufa | Rabies virus |
Vespertilionidae | Free‐tailed bats | Chaerephon sp. | Rhabdovirus |
Molossidae | Southern dog‐faced bat | Cynomops planirostris | Rabies virus |
Phyllostomidae | Common vampire bat | Desmodus rotundus | Rabies virus |
Phyllostomidae | White‐winged vampire bat | Diaemus youngi | Rabies virus |
Phyllostomidae | Hairy‐legged vampire bat | Diphylla ecaudata | Rabies virus |
Pteropodidae | Straw‐colored fruit bat | Eidolon helvum | Kumasi rhabdovirus |
Pteropodidae | Straw‐colored fruit bat | Eidolon helvum | Lagos bat virus |
Pteropodidae | Gambian epauletted fruit bat | Epomophorus gambianus | Lagos bat virus |
Pteropodidae | Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat | Epomorphorus wahlbergi | Lagos bat virus |
Pteropodidae | Dobson's epauletted bat | Epomops dobsoni | Lagos bat virus |
Vespertilionidae | Argentine brown bat | Eptesicus furinalis | Rabies virus |
Vespertilionidae | Big brown bat | Eptesicus fuscus | American bat vesiculovirus |
Vespertilionidae | Isabell's serotine | Eptesicus isabellinus | E. isabellinus rhabdovirus 1 |
Vespertilionidae | Isabell's serotine | Eptesicus isabellinus | E. isabellinus rhabdovirus 2 |
Vespertilionidae | Isabell's serotine | Eptesicus isabellinus | E. isabellinus rhabdovirus 3 |
Vespertilionidae | Isabell's serotine | Eptesicus isabellinus | E. isabellinus rhabdovirus 4 |
Vespertilionidae | Isabell's serotine | Eptesicus isabellinus | E. isabellinus rhabdovirus 5 |
Vespertilionidae | Isabell's serotine | Eptesicus isabellinus | EBLV‐1 |
Vespertilionidae | Serotine bat | Eptesicus serotinus | EBLV‐1 |
Molossidae | Black‐bonneted bat | Eumops auripendulus | Rabies virus |
Molossidae | Wagner's bonneted bat | Eumops glaucinus | Rabies virus |
Molossidae | Patagonian dwarf bonneted bat | Eumops patagonicus | Rabies virus |
Phyllostomidae | Pallas’s long‐tongued bat | Glossophaga soricina | Rabies virus |
Rhinolophidae | Jone’s roundleaf bat | Hipposideros jonesi | Kolente virus |
Rhinolophidae | Striped roundleaf bat | Hipposideros vittatatus | Fikirini rhabdovirus |
Rhinolophidae | Striped roundleaf bat | Hipposideros vittatatus | Shimoni virus |
Vespertilionidae | Big‐eared brown bat | Histiotus macrotus | Rabies virus |
Vespertilionidae | Small big‐eared brown bat | Histiotus montanus | Rabies virus |
Vespertilionidae | Savi’s pipistrelle | Hypsugo savii | Hypsugo savii rhabdovirus 1 |
Vespertilionidae | Savi’s pipistrelle | Hypsugo savii | EBLV‐1 |
Vespertilionidae | Desert red bat | Lasiurus blossevillii | Rabies virus |
Vespertilionidae | Hoary bat | Lasiurus cinereus | Rabies virus |
Vespertilionidae | Southern yellow bat | Lasiurus ega | Rabies virus |
Vespertilionidae | Northern yellow bat | Lasiurus intermedius | Rabies virus |
Vespertilionidae | Seminole bat | Lasiurus seminolus | Rabies virus |
Phyllostomidae | Mexican long‐nosed bat | Leptonycteris nivalis | Rabies virus |
Phyllostomidae | Lesser long‐nosed bat | Leptonycteris yerbabuenae | Rabies virus |
Phyllostomidae | Waterhouse’s leaf‐nosed bat | Macrotus waterhousii | Rabies virus |
Phyllostomidae | Little big‐eared bat | Micronycteris megalotis | Rabies virus |
Miniopteridae | African long‐fingered bat | Miniopterus africanus | Rhabdovirus |
Miniopteridae | Schreiber’s long‐fingered bat | Miniopterus schreibersi | Lleida bat lyssavirus |
Miniopteridae | Schreiber’s long‐fingered bat | Miniopterus schre... |