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Furry little creatures teem with a multitude of viruses

Large-scale survey reveals the diversity of viruses in small mammals, which can be sources of viruses that hop to humans.
Coloured transmission electron micrograph of a cluster of rotaviruses.

Rotavirus (artificially coloured) is one of the many viruses that are found in small mammals. Credit: Eye Of Science/SPL

Bats, rodents and shrews — the most important animal sources of human infectious diseases — harbour a veritable smorgasbord of viruses1.

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Nature 621, 661 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02917-7

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  1. Chen, Y.-M. et al. Cell https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.08.029 (2023).

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