Pathogenesis of bat rabies in a natural reservoir: Comparative susceptibility of the straw-colored fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) to three strains of Lagos bat virus.

• Main Authors: Richard Suu-Ire (Author), Lineke Begeman (Author), Ashley C Banyard (Author), Andrew C Breed (Author), Christian Drosten (Author), Elisa Eggerbauer (Author), Conrad M Freuling (Author), Louise Gibson (Author), Hooman Goharriz (Author), Daniel L Horton (Author), Daisy Jennings (Author), Ivan V Kuzmin (Author), Denise Marston (Author), Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu (Author), Silke Riesle Sbarbaro (Author), David Selden (Author), Emma L Wise (Author), Thijs Kuiken (Author), Anthony R Fooks (Author), Thomas Müller (Author), James L N Wood (Author), Andrew A Cunningham (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Rabies is a fatal neurologic disease caused by lyssavirus infection. People are infected through contact with infected animals. The relative increase of human rabies acquired from bats calls for a better understanding of lyssavirus infections in their natural hosts. So far, there is no experimental...