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Wendigos, Eye Killers, Skinwalkers: The Myth of the American Indian Vampire and American Indian “Vampire” Myths [PDF]
Text Matters, 2016 We all know vampires. Count Dracula and Nosferatu, maybe Blade and Angel, or Stephenie Meyer’s sparkling beau, Edward Cullen. In fact, the Euro-American vampire myth has long become one of the most reliable and bestselling fun-rides the entertainment ...
Corinna Lenhardt
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Viruses, 2021 The common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) is a hematophagous species responsible for paralytic rabies and bite damage that affects livestock, humans and wildlife from Mexico to Argentina. Current measures to control vampires, based upon coumarin-derived
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Communications Biology, 2021 A new fossil of a vampire squid bridges a 120 million-year gap in their fossil record. Vampire squid today are adapted to low oxygen, deep sea environments and this new specimen provides evidence that the deep sea specialisation of vampire squid may have
Martin Košťák +10 more
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Vampire Bat Rabies: Ecology, Epidemiology and Control
Viruses, 2014 Extensive surveillance in bat populations in response to recent emerging diseases has revealed that this group of mammals acts as a reservoir for a large range of viruses.
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Effects of culling vampire bats on the spatial spread and spillover of rabies virus
Science Advances, 2023 Controlling pathogen circulation in wildlife reservoirs is notoriously challenging. In Latin America, vampire bats have been culled for decades in hopes of mitigating lethal rabies infections in humans and livestock.
M. Viana +10 more
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Mammalian Biology, 2023 The common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) maintains a diverse, sanguivorous diet, utilizing a broad range of prey taxa. As anthropogenic change alters the distribution of this species, shifts in predator–prey interactions are expected.
N. Brown, Luis E. Escobar
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The use of 2D alpha-shapes (α-shapes) to quantify morphological features of the retinal microvasculature could lead to imaging biomarkers for proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR).
Emma Pead +6 more
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023 Significance Spillover of wildlife viruses causes global health and economic burdens and remains largely unpreventable. Vaccines that disrupt virus transmission within wildlife reservoirs might prevent spillover but face the unresolved challenge of ...
Megan E. Griffiths +3 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 Bats carry many zoonotic pathogens without showing pronounced pathology, with a few exceptions. The underlying immune tolerance mechanisms in bats remain poorly understood, although information-rich omics tools hold promise for identifying a wide range ...
Amanda Vicente-Santos +13 more
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A contribution to the vampire studies among Serbs or vampire stories from Luznica [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2004 This paper is the result of original fieldwork performed in the village of Strelac, in southeast Serbia during August 2003. All Slavs believed in the existence of a vampire; still today, this belief is widespread among Serbs.
Blagojević Gordana
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