What Links Bats to Emerging Infectious Diseases?
- 28 October 2005
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 310 (5748) , 628-629
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1120872
Abstract
The discovery that bats are the reservoir hosts of the coronavirus that causes SARS in humans raises important questions about how we monitor and control emergent disease outbreaks. In his Perspective, [Dobson][1] focuses on the need to know more about the distribution of pathogens in their natural reservoir hosts and asks whether the absence of pathology that characterizes these relationships may reflect subtle differences in the immune responses of bats. [1]: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/310/5748/628Keywords
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