Enhanced passive bat rabies surveillance in indigenous bat species from Germany--a retrospective study.

• Main Authors: Juliane Schatz (Author), Conrad Martin Freuling (Author), Ernst Auer (Author), Hooman Goharriz (Author), Christine Harbusch (Author), Nicholas Johnson (Author), Ingrid Kaipf (Author), Thomas Christoph Mettenleiter (Author), Kristin Mühldorfer (Author), Ralf-Udo Mühle (Author), Bernd Ohlendorf (Author), Bärbel Pott-Dörfer (Author), Julia Prüger (Author), Hanan Sheikh Ali (Author), Dagmar Stiefel (Author), Jens Teubner (Author), Rainer Günter Ulrich (Author), Gudrun Wibbelt (Author), Thomas Müller (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In Germany, rabies in bats is a notifiable zoonotic disease, which is caused by European bat lyssaviruses type 1 and 2 (EBLV-1 and 2), and the recently discovered new lyssavirus species Bokeloh bat lyssavirus (BBLV). As the understanding of bat rabies in insectivorous bat species is limited, in addi...