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

• Autors principals: Juliane Schatz (Autor), Conrad Martin Freuling (Autor), Ernst Auer (Autor), Hooman Goharriz (Autor), Christine Harbusch (Autor), Nicholas Johnson (Autor), Ingrid Kaipf (Autor), Thomas Christoph Mettenleiter (Autor), Kristin Mühldorfer (Autor), Ralf-Udo Mühle (Autor), Bernd Ohlendorf (Autor), Bärbel Pott-Dörfer (Autor), Julia Prüger (Autor), Hanan Sheikh Ali (Autor), Dagmar Stiefel (Autor), Jens Teubner (Autor), Rainer Günter Ulrich (Autor), Gudrun Wibbelt (Autor), Thomas Müller (Autor)
• Format: Llibre
• Publicat: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Matèries: 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...