Retroviruses of Bats: a Threat Waiting in the Wings?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Retroviruses of Bats: a Threat Waiting in the Wings?

Published:2021-10-26 Issue:5 Volume:12 Page:
ISSN:2150-7511
Container-title:mBio
language:en
Short-container-title:mBio

Author:

Hayward Joshua A.¹²^ORCID,Tachedjian Gilda¹²³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Health Security Program, Life Sciences Discipline, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

2. Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

3. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Abstract

Bats are infamous reservoirs of deadly human viruses. While retroviruses, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), are among the most significant of virus families that have jumped from animals into humans, whether bat retroviruses have the potential to infect and cause disease in humans remains unknown.

Funder

Department of Health, Australian Government | National Health and Medical Research Council

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Microbiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mBio.01941-21

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