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SUBMITTER: Plowright RK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4262174 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Plowright Raina K RK Eby Peggy P Hudson Peter J PJ Smith Ina L IL Westcott David D Bryden Wayne L WL Middleton Deborah D Reid Peter A PA McFarlane Rosemary A RA Martin Gerardo G Tabor Gary M GM Skerratt Lee F LF Anderson Dale L DL Crameri Gary G Quammen David D Jordan David D Freeman Paul P Wang Lin-Fa LF Epstein Jonathan H JH Marsh Glenn A GA Kung Nina Y NY McCallum Hamish H
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20150101 1798
Viruses that originate in bats may be the most notorious emerging zoonoses that spill over from wildlife into domestic animals and humans. Understanding how these infections filter through ecological systems to cause disease in humans is of profound importance to public health. Transmission of viruses from bats to humans requires a hierarchy of enabling conditions that connect the distribution of reservoir hosts, viral infection within these hosts, and exposure and susceptibility of recipient ho ...[more]