Serum proteomics reveals a tolerant immune phenotype across multiple pathogen taxa in wild vampire bats [PDF]
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 +18 more
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Diversity of Ehrlichia spp., Anaplasma spp. and Neorickettsia spp. in vampire bats [PDF]
Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne DiseasesAlthough bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) act as natural reservoirs for many zoonotic pathogens around the world, few studies have investigated the occurrence of Anaplasmataceae agents in bats, especially vampire bats.
Victória Valente Califre de Mello +8 more
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Social dominance and cooperation in female vampire bats [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 When group-living animals develop individualized social relationships, they often regulate cooperation and conflict through a dominance hierarchy. Female common vampire bats have been an experimental system for studying cooperative relationships, yet ...
Rachel J. Crisp +2 more
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Social foraging in vampire bats is predicted by long-term cooperative relationships. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2021 Stable social bonds in group-living animals can provide greater access to food. A striking example is that female vampire bats often regurgitate blood to socially bonded kin and nonkin that failed in their nightly hunt.
Simon P Ripperger, Gerald G Carter
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Genetic diversity, infection prevalence, and possible transmission routes of Bartonella spp. in vampire bats. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018 Bartonella spp. are globally distributed bacteria that cause endocarditis in humans and domestic animals. Recent work has suggested bats as zoonotic reservoirs of some human Bartonella infections; however, the ecological and spatiotemporal patterns of ...
Daniel J Becker +5 more
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Younger vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are more likely than adults to explore novel objects. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The effects of age on neophobia and exploration are best described in birds and primates, and broader comparisons require reports from other taxa. Here we present data showing age-dependent exploration in a long-lived social species, the common vampire ...
Gerald G Carter +3 more
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Drivers of rabies virus spillover risk from vampire bats to livestock in Colombia. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseasesBackgroundRabies is an acute and progressive viral zoonotic disease of the nervous system, which widely affects domestic animals in Latin America. Vampire bat-borne rabies virus (RABV) has significant negative impacts on the livestock industry via animal
Paige Van de Vuurst +5 more
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Serological Surveillance of Rabies in Free-Range and Captive Common Vampire Bats Desmodus rotundus [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 The control of vampire bat rabies (VBR) in Brazil is based on the culling of Desmodus rotundus and the surveillance of outbreaks caused by D. rotundus in cattle and humans in addition to vaccination of susceptible livestock.
Jane Megid +14 more
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Frontiers in Virology, 2022 The apparent ability of bats to harbor many virulent viruses without showing disease is likely driven by distinct immune responses that coevolved with mammalian flight and the exceptional longevity of this order.
Daniel J. Becker +9 more
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Effects of culling vampire bats on the spatial spread and spillover of rabies virus. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 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.
Viana M +10 more
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