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Record Nr.

UNINA9910270898903321

Autore

Beltz Lisa A. <1960->

Titolo

Bats and human health : ebola, SARS, rabies and beyond / / Lisa A. Beltz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-119-15004-3

1-119-15005-1

1-119-15006-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

599.4

Soggetti

Bats - Diseases

Animals as carriers of disease

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

I : Introduction. Bat immunology -- II : Viral infections of bats. Rabies virus and other bat rhabdoviruses -- Henipaviruses and other paramyxoviruses of bats -- Filoviruses and bats -- Bats and coronaviruses -- Other RNA viruses and bats -- Baltimore class I and class II DNA viruses of bats -- Reverse-transcribing bat viruses and large-scale bat virome studies -- III : Bacterial infections of bats. Arthropod-borne bacterial infections of bats -- Other bacteria and bats -- IV : Protist infections of bats. Apicomplexans and bats -- Kinetoplastids and bats -- V : Fungal infections of bats. White-nose syndrome and bats -- Histoplasma capsulatum and other fungi and bats -- VI : Zoonotic disease transmission and bats. Zoonotic transmission of disease by bats and other animals.