Pathogen-Reservoir Interactions: What We Do Not Know Likely Will Hurt Us

Abstract

The establishment of selective colonies of potential vertebrate hosts for viruses would provide experimental models for the understanding of pathogen-host interactions. This paper briefly surveys the reasons to conduct such studies and how the results might provide information that could be applied to disease prevention activities.

Keywords

• SARS-CoV-2
• reverse transmission
• coronavirus
• bats
• zoonosis
• reservoir