id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-021805-2j07zw6q Epstein, Jonathan H. Emerging Diseases in Bats 2018-09-28 .txt text/plain 4160 214 50 6, 7 Bats have been associated with several zoonotic viruses that have recently been discovered and linked to significant human and animal disease, including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), Ebola and Marburg viruses, and Nipah virus (NiV) 8 (see also Chapters 19, 34, and 42 ). Viral discovery has, however, significantly expanded our understanding of the phylogenetic breadth of important viral families such as filoviruses (e.g., Ebola virus), paramyxoviruses (e.g., NiV), and coronaviruses (e.g., SARS coronavirus [CoV]), which is necessary for both better understanding what makes viruses pathogenic and also for recognizing wildlife reservoirs of viral pathogens, once they do emerge, more rapidly. Data are mounting to support bats as important reservoirs compared with other mammals, and large-scale surveillance efforts like PREDICT and the recently launched Global Virome Project, a 10-year effort to identify the majority of viruses in key wildlife species in emerging disease hot spots, 73 will shed more light on the total diversity of viruses in bat species and the types of human-animal interfaces that exist in different geographic and cultural contexts. ./cache/cord-021805-2j07zw6q.txt ./txt/cord-021805-2j07zw6q.txt