Active surveillance for antibodies confirms circulation of lyssaviruses in Palearctic bats ...

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Background: Palearctic bats host a diversity of lyssaviruses, though not the classical rabies virus (RABV). As surveillance for bat rabies over the Palearctic area covering Central and Eastern Europe and Siberian regions of Russia has been irregular...

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Main Authors: Seidlova, Veronika, Zukal, Jan, Brichta, Jiri, Anisimov, Nikolay, Apoznański, Grzegorz, Bandouchova, Hana, Bartonička, Tomáš, Berková, Hana, Botvinkin, Alexander D., Heger, Tomas, Dundarova, Heliana, Kokurewicz, Tomasz, Linhart, Petr, Orlov, Oleg L., Piacek, Vladimir, Presetnik, Primož, Shumkina, Alexandra P., Tiunov, Mikhail P., Treml, Frantisek, Pikula, Jiri
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2020
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Chordata
Animalia
bats
bat
Vespertilio murinus
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13429961
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13429961
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Summary:(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Background: Palearctic bats host a diversity of lyssaviruses, though not the classical rabies virus (RABV). As surveillance for bat rabies over the Palearctic area covering Central and Eastern Europe and Siberian regions of Russia has been irregular, we lack data on geographic and seasonal patterns of the infection. Results: To address this, we undertook serological testing, using non-lethally sampled blood, on 1027 bats of 25 species in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Slovenia between 2014 and 2018. The indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) detected rabies virus anti-glycoprotein antibodies in 33 bats, giving an overall seroprevalence of 3.2%. Bat species exceeding the seroconversion threshold included Myotis blythii, Myotis gracilis, Myotis petax, Myotis myotis, Murina hilgendorfi, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum and Vespertilio murinus. While Myotis species (84.8%) and adult females (48.5%) dominated in seropositive bats, juveniles ...

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