[Chiroptera viruses transmitted or not transmitted by arthropods].
The authors make a review of literature on viruses isolated from chiroptera's tissues. They study especially two of these viruses: a true arbovirus, the Japanese B encephalitis virus and a virus of the same genus but not arthropod-borne, the Rio Bravo virus. They consider successively for each virus: isolations from bats, serosurveys in bat and in man, and experimental studies with these viruses, allowing to estimate the role of chiroptera in the diffusion and the maintenance of some arboviruses. They also report some personal results of serosurveys in bats from Tunisia and Spain.
D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D001103:Arboviruses / Q000254:growth & development / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001179:Arthropod Vectors; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000382:microbiology*; D004664:Encephalitis Virus, Japanese / Q000254:growth & development / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013030:Spain; D014035:Togaviridae / Q000254:growth & development / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014416:Tunisia
D000914:Antibodies, Viral
Virus des chiroptères transmis ou non par arthropodes.