| Chicago: The University of Chicago Press | The John Hopikins University Press, Baltimore and London |
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| Cambridge: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge | However, of the very few cases of reported in the every year, most are caused by bat |
The genetic diversity of bat-derived sequences supports the notion that bats are a natural reservoir host of the SARS cluster of coronaviruses.
| Walker's Bats of the World | Note: This could be considered a lay summary of the various scientific publications cited in the preceding sentence |
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| There is evidence that it is possible for the bat rabies virus to infect victims purely through airborne transmission, without direct physical contact of the victim with the bat itself | Their high mobility, broad distribution, and social behaviour communal roosting, fission-fusion social structure make bats favourable hosts and vectors of disease |
Although most bats do not have rabies, those that do may be clumsy, disoriented, and unable to fly, which makes it more likely that they will come into contact with humans.
| Many species also appear to have a high tolerance for harbouring pathogens and often do not develop disease while infected | Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press |
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| Chicago: The University of Chicago Press | Although most bats do not have rabies, those that do may be clumsy, disoriented, and unable to fly, which makes it more likely that they will come into contact with humans |
"Adverse effects of microgravity on the magnetotactic bacterium Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum".
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