Bats and viruses a new frontier of emerging infectious diseases / edited by Lin-fa Wang and Christopher Cowled.

Other author Wang, Lin-fa.
Other author Cowled, Christopher.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoboken, New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
Description1 online resource.
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Contents The uniqueness of bats / Paul A. Racey -- Viruses in bats : a historic view / Charles H. Calisher -- Bat iyssaviruses / Ivan Kuzmin and Charles Rupprecht -- Bat paramyxoviruses / Danielle E. Anderson and Glenn A. Marsh -- Bat coronaviruses / Xingye Ge, Ben Hu and Zhengli Shi -- Bat filoviruses / G.D. Maganga, V. Rougerona, E. M. Leroy -- Bats and reverse transcribing RNA and DNA viruses / Gilda Tachedjian, Joshua A. Hayward and Jie Cui -- Bat reoviruses / Claudia Kohl and Andreas Kurth -- Other bat-borne viruses / Suxiang Tong, Krista Queen, Mang Shi and Larry J. Anderson -- Anthropogenic epidemics : the ecology of bat-borne viruses and our role in their emergence / Jon Epstein and Hume Field -- Are bats really 'special' as viral reservoirs? what we know and need to know / Kevin J. Olival, Cristin C. Weekley and Peter Daszak -- Animal models of recently emerged bat-borne viruses / Jackie Pallister and Deborah Middleton -- Bat genomics / James J. Wynne and Mary Tachedjian -- Bat immunology / Michelle L. Baker and Peng Zhou.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Bats and viruses Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015 9781118818732
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LCCN 2015018616
ISBN9781118818725 (ePub)
ISBN9781118818787 (Adobe PDF)

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