“…MRVs were traditionally believed to be the causative agents of mild respiratory and enteric infections, without significant clinical impact. However, in the last decade, increasing numbers of studies in humans and other mammals have shown that they can cause severe illness in humans and other mammals, including upper respiratory tract infections, encephalitis, and diarrhea (Chua et al, 2008;Ouattara et al, 2011a;Steyer et al, 2013a). MRVs have been isolated from a broad range of mammalian species, including bats (Hu et al, 2014;Kohl et al, 2012;Lelli et al, 2013;Lorusso et al, 2014;Thalmann et al, 2010;Wang et al, 2015a;Yang et al, 2015), civet cats , cows (Anbalagan et al, 2014), mink (Lian et al, 2013), pigs (Dai et al, 2012b;Kwon et al, 2012b;Thimmasandra Narayanappa et al, 2015;Zhang et al, 2011a), dogs (Decaro et al, 2005) and humans (Chua et al, 2008;Ouattara et al, 2011b).…”