Bats, Coronaviruses, and Deforestation: Toward the Emergence of Novel Infectious Diseases?

Front Microbiol. 2018 Apr 11:9:702. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00702. eCollection 2018.

Aneta Afelt¹, Roger Frutos^{2

3}, Christian Devaux⁴

¹ Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
² IES, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France.
³ Cirad, UMR 17, Intertryp, Montpellier, France.
⁴ Aix Marseille Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IRD, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, AP-HM, URMITE, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.

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Keywords: anthropization; bat; coronavirus; deforestation; emergence; mosaic landscape; novel contacts.