Bat-associated diseases
Glenn A Marsh
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Australian Animal Health Laboratory
CSIRO Health and Biosecurity
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East Geelong, Vic. 3219, Australia
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Email: glenn.marsh@csiro.au
Microbiology Australia 38(1) 3-3 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA17002
Published: 28 February 2017
Abstract
Emerging infectious diseases pose a significant threat to human and animal health. Increasingly, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are of zoonotic origin and are derived from wildlife. Bats have been identified as an important reservoir of zoonotic viruses belonging to a range of different virus families including SARSCoronavirus, Rabies virus, Hendra virus, Nipah virus, Marburg virus and Ebola virus.
