Figure 5.

VirScan can be used as a tool to explore age-seroprevalence patterns, which are useful in inferring pathogen dynamics. Here, we see little evidence of increasing seroprevalence with age (a classic signature of SIR dynamics), which might suggest that waning antibodies and cycles of immunity may underpin bat virus dynamics more broadly. Importantly, a bat-specific VirScan library might elucidate these trends more clearly. Note that we binned age classes together such that bats aged as 2 and 3 years old were binned into 2.5 years, bats 4 and 5 years as 4.5 years, and so on, in order to view patterns in the data.