Viral Diversity of Microbats within the South West Botanical Province of Western Australia.

ABSTRACT: Bats are known reservoirs of a wide variety of viruses that rarely result in overt clinical disease in the bat host. However, anthropogenic influences on the landscape and climate can change species assemblages and interactions, as well as undermine host-resilience. The cumulative result is a disturbance of bat-pathogen dynamics, which facilitate spillover events to sympatric species, and may threaten bat communities already facing synergistic stressors through ecological change. Therefore, characterisation of viral pathogens in bat communities provides important basal information to monitor and predict the emergence of diseases relevant to conservation and public health. This study used targeted molecular techniques, serological assays and next generation sequencing to characterise adenov

SUBMITTER: Prada D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6950384 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature