High diversity of rabies viruses associated with insectivorous bats in Argentina: presence of several independent enzootics.

• Main Authors: Carolina Piñero (Author), Federico Gury Dohmen (Author), Fernando Beltran (Author), Leila Martinez (Author), Laura Novaro (Author), Susana Russo (Author), Gustavo Palacios (Author), Daniel M Cisterna (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Rabies is a fatal infection of the central nervous system primarily transmitted by rabid animal bites. Rabies virus (RABV) circulates through two different epidemiological cycles: terrestrial and aerial, where dogs, foxes or skunks and bats, respectively, act as the most relevant reservo...