Table 1.
Research effort * on bats and bat-associated viruses, including coronavirus, in the 20 countries of Western Asia.
| Country | Country Code (ISO3) in Figure 2 | Research Effort by Search Terms * | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bats | Bats and Viruses | Bats and Coronaviruses | ||
| Afghanistan | AFG | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Armenia | ARM | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| Azerbaijan | AZE | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Bahrain | BHR | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Georgia | GEO | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| Iran | IRN | 76 | 4 | 0 |
| Iraq | IRQ | 8 | 2 | 0 |
| Israel | ISR | 533 | 9 | 0 |
| Jordan | JOR | 44 | 21 | 9 |
| Kuwait | KWT | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 37 | 4 | 2 |
| Oman | OMN | 10 | 3 | 3 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 37 | 4 | 1 |
| Palestine | PSE | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Qatar | QAT | 11 | 4 | 4 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 67 | 29 | 32 |
| Syria | SYR | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Turkey | TUR | 110 | 7 | 2 |
| United Arab Emirates | ARE | 13 | 5 | 3 |
| Yemen | YEM | 5 | 0 | 0 |
* Research effort based on the number of publications indexed in PubMed that included the specific search terms listed in each column by country: Bats = (“bat” OR ”bats” OR ”Chiroptera”); Bats and Viruses = ( “bat” OR ”bats” OR ”Chiroptera”) AND (”virus” OR “viruses”); Bats and Coronaviruses = (“bat” OR ”bats” OR ”Chiroptera”) AND (”coronavirus” OR “coronaviruses”).