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Spatio-temporal study of diagnosis of rabies in vampire bats in Sergipe (Brazil), between 1987 and 2014

open access: yesBioscience Journal, 2019
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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Common vampire bat attacks on humans in a village of the Amazon region of Brazil Agressões de morcegos hematófagos a pessoas em um povoado da região amazônica do Brasil

open access: yesCadernos de Saúde Pública, 2001
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 brain of the common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus murinus (Wagner, 1840): a cytoarchitectural atlas O cérebro do morcego vampiro comum, Desmodus rotundus murinus (Wagner, 1840): um atlas citoarquitetural

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Biology, 2008
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
doaj   +1 more source

First report of rabies in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) in an urban area, Ubatuba, São Paulo state, Brazil Primeiro relato de raiva em morcego hematófago (Desmodus rotundus) em área urbana, Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brasil

open access: yesRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2007
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
doaj   +1 more source

A general framework for modeling pathogen transmission in co-roosting host communities. [PDF]

open access: yesEcology
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.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Notas sobre alguns morcegos da ilha de Maracá, Território Federal de Roraima (Mammalia, Chiroptera) [PDF]

open access: yesActa Amazonica, 1980
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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Desmodus rotundus

open access: yes, 1982
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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Desmodus rotundus

open access: yes, 2020
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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Desmodus rotundus

open access: yes, 1998
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

open access: yes, 2010
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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