Towards Development of an Anti-Vampire Bat Vaccine for Rabies Management: Inoculation of Vampire Bat Saliva Induces Immune-Mediated Resistance [PDF]
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
Horacio A. Delpietro +3 more
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Vampire Bat Rabies: Ecology, Epidemiology and Control [PDF]
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.
Nick Johnson +2 more
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Abortive vampire bat rabies infections in Peruvian peridomestic livestock. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020 Rabies virus infections normally cause universally lethal encephalitis across mammals. However, 'abortive infections' which are resolved prior to the onset of lethal disease have been described in bats and a variety of non-reservoir species.
Julio A Benavides +8 more
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Trypanosoma madeirae sp. n.: A species of the clade T. cruzi associated with the neotropical common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus [PDF]
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2019 Molecular phylogenetic studies have revealed the growing diversity of bat trypanosomes. Here, 14 isolates from blood samples of the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus (Phyllostomidae) from Rio de Janeiro, Southeast Brazil, were cultivated, and morphologically
Juliana H.S. Barros +3 more
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New distribution record of the Greater False Vampire Bat (Megaderma lyra, Geoffroy 1810) from North-Western Himalaya [PDF]
Journal of Tropical Life Science, 2023 India has been stated to have 10% of the world's total bat's diversity. The present survey was aimed to study the bat species diversity, distribution and activity patterns in north-western Himalayan region of India.
Devendra Singh, Dinesh Kumar Sharma
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Epidemiology and biology of a herpesvirus in rabies endemic vampire bat populations [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 Here, Griffiths et al. show infection of 80–100% of sampled vampire bats in Peru with a newly discovered betaherpesvirus (DrBHV) that exhibits specificity within neotropical bats and evidence for superinfection.
Megan E. Griffiths +8 more
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Vampire Venom: Vasodilatory Mechanisms of Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) Blood Feeding [PDF]
Toxins, 2019 Animals that specialise in blood feeding have particular challenges in obtaining their meal, whereby they impair blood hemostasis by promoting anticoagulation and vasodilation in order to facilitate feeding. These convergent selection pressures have been
Rahini Kakumanu +8 more
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A two-step metagenomics approach for the identification and mitochondrial DNA contig assembly of vertebrate prey from the blood meals of common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) [PDF]
Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, 2022 The feeding behaviour of the sanguivorous common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) facilitates the transmission of pathogens that can impact both human and animal health.
Physilia Y. S. Chua +6 more
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"Blood Suckers Most Cruel:" The Vampire and the Bat In and Before Dracula [PDF]
Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2019 The relationship between the nineteenth century vampire monster and the vampire bat has not yet been seriously investigated in English. Three common assumptions made by experts are examined in this paper.
Kevin Dodd
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One step closer to a transmissible vaccine for rabies virus
PLoS Biology, 2022 A recent study in PLOS Biology shows that a betaherpesvirus circulating with the vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, could serve as an effective vector for a transmissible vaccine capable of reducing the risk of rabies virus spillover in Peru.
Scott L. Nuismer
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