Jamaican fruit bats mount a stable and highly neutralizing antibody response after bat influenza virus infection

Abstract: Antibodies are an essential component of the antiviral response in many species, but to date, there is no compelling evidence that bats are capable of eliciting a robust humoral immunity, including neutralizing antibodies. Here, we report that infection of Jamaican fruit bats with the bat influenza A virus H18N11 elicits a rapid and stable humoral immune response with a strong neutralizing capacity, associated with no detectable viral shedding after repeat challenge infection. Thus, the neutralizing antibody response of bats might play an important role in the bat immunity

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. - 121, 42 (2024) , e2413619121, ISSN: 1091-6490

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Veröffentlichung
(where)
Freiburg
(who)
Universität
(when)
2024
Creator
Kessler, Susanne
Stegen, Philipp
Zhan, Shijun
Schwemmle, Martin
Reuther, Peter
Schountz, Tony
Ciminski, Kevin

DOI
10.1073/pnas.2413619121
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2576012
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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