Reproductive seasonality, sex ratio and philopatry in Argentina's common vampire bats [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are a key rabies vector in South America. Improved management of this species requires long-term, region-specific information.
H. A. Delpietro +4 more
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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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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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The role of past experience in development of feeding behavior in common vampire bats [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 The life history strategy of common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) suggests that learning might play a role in development of their foraging skills.
Jineth Berrío-Martínez +4 more
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Management of vampire bats and rabies: a precaution for rewilding projects in the Neotropics
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Changes in animal population dynamics and community composition following species (re)introduction may have unanticipated consequences for a variety of downstream ecosystem processes, including infectious disease transmission.
Fernando Gonçalves +2 more
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Detection of rabies virus nucleoprotein-RNA in several organs outside the Central Nervous System in naturally-infected vampire bats [PDF]
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2011 Rabies is a neurological disease, but the rabies virus spread to several organs outside the central nervous system (CNS). The rabies virus antigen or RNA has been identified from the salivary glands, the lungs, the kidneys, the heart and the liver.
Luiz F. P Vieira +6 more
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Ecological determinants of rabies virus dynamics in vampire bats and spillover to livestock. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2022 Meza DK +10 more
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Clinical Presentation and Serologic Response during a Rabies Epizootic in Captive Common Vampire Bats (Desmodus rotundus) [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020 We report mortality events in a group of 123 common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) captured in México and housed for a rabies vaccine efficacy study in Madison, Wisconsin.
Elsa M. Cárdenas-Canales +11 more
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Forced proximity promotes the formation of enduring cooperative relationships in vampire bats. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2022 Razik I, Brown BKG, Carter GG.
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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.
Nicholas Johnson +2 more
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