[Mechanisms of viral emergence and interspecies transmission: the exemple of simian foamy viruses in Central Africa] ...

• Main Author: Gessain, Antoine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Abattoirs; Adaptation, Physiological; Adult; Africa, Central; Age Distribution; Animals; Bites and Stings; Cameroon; Communicable Diseases, Emerging; Ethnicity; Female; Food Handling; Haplorhini; Hominidae; Host Specificity; Humans; Male; Meat; Occupational Exposure; Primate Diseases; Retroviridae Infections; Saliva; Sex Distribution; Simian foamy virus; Species Specificity; Young Adult; Zoonoses; Biodiversity; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Chordata; Animalia; bats; bat; Avian flu
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13525781; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13525781

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) A large proportion of viral pathogens that have emerged during the last decades in humans are considered to have originated from various animal species. This is well exemplified by several recent epidemics such as those of Nipah, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Avian flu, Ebola, Monkeypox, and Hantaviruses. After the initial interspecies transmission per se, the viruses can disseminate into the human population through various and distinct mechanisms. Some of them are well characterized and understood, thus allowing a certain level of risk control and prevention. Surprisingly and in contrast, the initial steps that lead to the emergence of several viruses, and of their associated diseases, remain still poorly understood. Epidemiological field studies conducted in certain specific high-risk populations are thus necessary to obtain new insights into the early events of this emergence process. Human infections by simian viruses represent increasing public ...