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Vampire bats and moonshine

BMJ, 2003
Mohit Kaushal and Christopher Niranjan went to Costa Rica for their elective and found that effective health care is more than clinical ...
Mohit Kaushal, Christopher Niranjan
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Longitudinal impacts of habitat fragmentation on Bartonella and hemotropic Mycoplasma dynamics in vampire bats

bioRxiv
Habitat fragmentation can have negative impacts on wildlife including increased risk of infectious disease. To assess spatiotemporal changes in pathogen dynamics in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) in response to habitat fragmentation, we used general ...
Lauren R. Lock, Kristin E. Dyer, D. Volokhov, Anni Yang, M. B. Fenton, Nancy B. Simmons, Daniel J. Becker   +6 more
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Experimental Rabies in the Vampire Bat

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1980
Vampire bats were inoculated intramuscularly and subcutaneously with varying doses of rabies virus to simulate bites by rabid animals in nature. Daily saliva samples were then taken from these animals to determine whether they excreted virus and for how long.
J A, Moreno, G M, Baer
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Possible Coevolution of Vampire Bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Desmodus) and Large Xenarthrans (Cingulata, Pilosa) in North America and South America During the Quaternary

Quaternary
Vampire bats likely first appeared in South America in the early Miocene (~20 Ma) and evolved to feed upon the blood of native South American mammals of medium to large body size, in particular, xenarthrans–ground sloths, armadillos, pampatheres, and ...
Gary Morgan, H. G. McDonald, N. Czaplewski   +2 more
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VITAMIN C DEFICIENCY-ASSOCIATED LESIONS IN A COLONY OF COMMON VAMPIRE BATS (DESMODUS ROTUNDUS) IN A ZOO FACILITY

Journal of zoo and wildlife medicine, 2021
: The Milwaukee County Zoo has housed common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) since 1973. The bats are fed defibrinated cow's blood supplemented with a liquid pediatric multivitamin.
Jennifer C. Hausmann, Jorden Manasse, H. Steinberg, V. Clyde, R. Wallace   +4 more
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Microplastic Contamination in Amazon Vampire Bats (Desmodontinae: Phyllostomidae)

Diversity
Microplastics (MPs) are polymers smaller than five millimeters, are easily dispersed, and are considered a contaminant of emerging concern. The objective was to quantify and characterize, both by color and shape, the presence of MPs in the stomach ...
A. B. Alencastre-Santos, D. M. E. Silva, D. Ribeiro-Brasil, L. Correia, M. G. Garcia, T. B. Vieira   +5 more
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Yellow fever virus investigation in tissues of vampire bats Desmodus rotundus during a wild yellow fever outbreak in Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2022
In the last decade a large outbreak of Yellow Fever (YF) has been observed in Brazilian Atlantic Forest region, traditionally a non-endemic area. In this scenario, the role of wild mammal species as YF reservoirs can be questioned, especially the ...
Marli do Cupertino, Taciana de Souza Bayão, M. F. Xisto, S. Paula, Susana Puga Ribeiro, S. Montenegro, M. B. Freitas, A. Gomes, R. Siqueira-Batista   +8 more
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Vampire Bat-Transmitted Rabies in Cattle

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1988
A short history of bovine paralytic rabies in the Americas is given. Based on information from the Animal Health Yearbook--a cooperative publication of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the International Office of Epizootics (OIE)--a comparison is made of the epidemiology of the disease in 1968, 1978,
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Desmodus rotundus murinus (Vampire bat)

1967
The specimens (one male and one female) were collected in Vera Cruz, Mexico by Mr. Robert Dooley, Houston Zoological Garden, Houston, Texas, USA. Lung cultures were used for karyological studies.
T. C. Hsu, Kurt Benirschke
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Vampire bats: Trust in Privacy

2010 Eighth International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, 2010
Trust and privacy are ancient social concepts. Work on formalizing trust dates back to the mid-nineties, while work on formalizing privacy is in its infancy. The two concepts have a number of similarities including considerations of information type and sensitivity to inform actions, relationship between the communicating parties, and the context or ...
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