Main causes of death of free-ranging bats in Turin province (North-Western Italy): gross and histological findings and emergent virus surveillance

Table 1 Histopathological lesions associated with viral infection in bats

Family	Genus	Organs/Samples from which virus has been isolated	Reported histopathological lesions	References
Filoviridae	Ebolavirus	Brain, liver, oral/rectal swabs, lung and spleen	Non suppurative pneumonia; depletion of lymphoid follicles in spleen	[22]
Herpesviridae	Rhadinovirus	Lung, liver, spleen, kidney	Pneumonia	[23]
Reoviridae	Orthoreovirus	Lung, intestine, liver, spleen	Hemorrhagic or catarrhal-hemorrhagic enteritis, pneumonia, activation of the lymphoreticular tissue in the spleen	[10, 16, 17, 24]
Togaviridae	Alfavirus	Blood, organ pool	Non-significant lesions	[25]

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