Bat airway epithelial cells: a novel tool for the study of zoonotic viruses.

Bats have been increasingly recognized as reservoir of important zoonotic viruses. However, until now many attempts to isolate bat-borne viruses in cell culture have been unsuccessful. Further, experimental studies on reservoir host species have been limited by the difficulty of rearing these specie...

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Main Authors: Isabella Eckerle, Lukas Ehlen, René Kallies, Robert Wollny, Victor M Corman, Veronika M Cottontail, Marco Tschapka, Samuel Oppong, Christian Drosten, Marcel A Müller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24454736/?tool=EBI