KOZHIKODE: Prof. Stephen Luby, the Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine) at Stanford University in the United States, has said Pteropus genus fruit bat hosts the Nipah ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nipah virus (NiV), an RNA virus, and Nipah virus infection (NiVI) are relatively recently discovered entities.

Bat genomes are characterised by an A-T richness and by a small C-value compared with other mammalian groups. It has been suggested that the small C-value is mainly due to the lack of repetitive DNA ...

The rare bat is found only on two small islands of Anjouan and Mohéli in the Comoros archipelago, off the southeast coast of Africa. Around 19 of the 21 remaining bat roost sites have been affected ...

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