First cases of European bat lyssavirus type 1 in Iberian serotine bats: Implications for the molecular epidemiology of bat rabies in Europe.

• Main Authors: Patricia Mingo-Casas (Author), Virginia Sandonís (Author), Elena Obón (Author), José M Berciano (Author), Sonia Vázquez-Morón (Author), Javier Juste (Author), Juan E Echevarría (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Previous studies have shown that EBLV-1 strains exclusively hosted by Eptesicus isabellinus bats in the Iberian Peninsula cluster in a specific monophyletic group that is related to the EBLV-1b lineage found in the rest of Europe. More recently, enhanced passive surveillance has allowed the detectio...