Bats and viruses: a new frontier of emerging infectious diseases

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) 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