id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-005012-bgo0uwob Hiller, Thomas Host Biology and Anthropogenic Factors Affect Hepadnavirus Infection in a Neotropical Bat 2018-12-18 .txt text/plain 5465 280 48 We show that it is widespread and highly diversified in Peters' tent-making bats (Uroderma bilobatum) within Panama, while local prevalence varied significantly between sample sites, ranging from 0 to 14.3%. Hepatitis B, a representative of these orthohepadnaviruses, is one of the most common and serious viral infectious diseases in humans, causing acute and chronic infections of the liver, resulting in an estimated 900,000 deaths each year (WHO Global Hepatitis Report 2017). The tent-making bat Hepatitis B virus (TBHBV), isolated from Peters' tent-making bats (Uroderma bilobatum) in Panama, is antigenically closely related to primate HBV (Drexler et al. In fact, this close relatedness offers an exceptional possibility to study disease transmission among host bats in their natural environment, as mechanisms and restrictions might be directly adapted from well-studied host-virus interaction in humans and animals (Seeger and Mason 2000; Menne and Cote 2007; Wang et al. ./cache/cord-005012-bgo0uwob.txt ./txt/cord-005012-bgo0uwob.txt