Importance of Bats in Wildlife: Not Just Carriers of Pandemic SARS-CoV-2 and Other Viruses

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D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana^1,2, S. Daniela Jimenez-Diaz¹, Shailesh Kumar Patel³, Kuldeep Dhama³, Ali A. Rabaan⁴, Ranjit Sah⁵, Manuel Sierra⁶, Lysien I. Zambrano⁷, Kovy Arteaga-Livias^8,9 and Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales^2,9,10

¹Incubator in Zoonosis (SIZOO), Biodiversity and Ecosystem Conservation Research Group (BIOECOS), Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, Sede Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.

²Public Health and Infection Research Group and Incubator, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.

³Division of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar 243 122, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India.

⁴Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

⁵Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal.

⁶Universidad Tecnologica Centroamericana, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

⁷Departments of Physiological and Morphological Sciences, School of Medical, Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras (UNAH), Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

⁸Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Hermilio Valdizan, Huanuco, Peru.

⁹Masters in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Lima, Peru.

¹⁰Grupo de Investigacion Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.

J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2020;14(suppl 1):709-712 | Article Number: 6232

https://doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.14.SPL1.05 | © The Author(s). 2020

Received: 15/04/2020 | Accepted: 23/04/2020 | Published: 01/05/2020

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Abstract

Bats are the only flying mammals that carry multiple pathogens, such as the SARS-CoV-2. As a consequent of fear of the zoonotic origin of SARS-CoV-2, there is an adverse reaction in multiple countries against these animals. Bats contribute with arthropod control and pollination, among other positive roles of these animals.

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Bats, Coronaviruses, zoonotic diseases, wildlife, Pandemic, SARS-CoV-2

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