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Rabies is a zoonosis of great importance for human and animal health, being responsible for a progressive and acute encephalitis in humans and animals.
Karla Dias Antunes +8 more
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Many people in Amazonian communities have reported bat bites in the last decade. Bites by vampire bats can potentially transmit rabies to humans. The objective of this study was to analyze factors associated with bat biting in one of these communities. A
Maria Cristina Schneider +4 more
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The vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, is exceptionally agile and stealthy in nature. Feeding at night on cattle blood, it is a known scourge carrying rabies.
KP. Bhatnagar
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The purpose of this report is to record the first case of a hematophagous bat (Desmodus rotundus) infected with rabies virus in an urban area in Brazil. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first such case in Latin America.
Claudia Ferraz +2 more
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A general framework for modeling pathogen transmission in co-roosting host communities. [PDF]
Abstract Cross‐species transmission of pathogens can be facilitated by frequent contact among wildlife. Cross‐species transmission is often driven by phylogenetic similarity between host species, but the role this plays when multiple host species co‐roost is unknown.
Simonis MC, Becker DJ.
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Notas sobre alguns morcegos da ilha de Maracá, Território Federal de Roraima (Mammalia, Chiroptera) [PDF]
Resumo Foram analisadas oito espécies de morcegos (Pteronotus parnellii rubiginosus, Carollia p. perspicillata, Uroderma b. bilobatum, Uroderma magnirostrum, Chiroderma v. villosum, Artibeus fuliginosus, Desmodus r. rotundus, Molossus m.
Valdir Antonio Taddei +1 more
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Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc.
James H. Honacki +2 more
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Published as part of Cláudio, Vinícius C., Barbosa, Gedimar P., Rocha, Vlamir J. & Rassy, Ricardo Moratelli Fabrício B., 2020, The bat fauna (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Carlos Botelho State Park, Atlantic Forest of Southeastern Brazil, including new distribution records for the state of São Paulo, pp.
Cláudio, Vinícius C. +3 more
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Published as part of Simmons, Nancy B. & Voss, Robert S., 1998, The mammals of Paracou, French Guiana, a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 1, Bats, pp.
Simmons, Nancy B., Voss, Robert S.
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Desmodus rotundus (Geoffroy St.-Hilaire 1810) Distribution. From Mexico southward Central and South America to northern Argentina, northwestern Chile, and Uruguay. This species is found in almost all Brazilian states, except in Rio Grande do Norte and Tocantins states (Peracchi et al. 2006). Habitat.
Bezerra, Alexandra M. R. +1 more
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