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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
Horacio A. Delpietro +3 more
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Molecular and geographic analyses of vampire bat-transmitted cattle rabies in central Brazil
BMC Veterinary Research, 2008 Background Vampire bats are important rabies virus vectors, causing critical problems in both the livestock industry and public health sector in Latin America.
Santos Hamilton P +9 more
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Coronavirus Detection in Bats Captured on the Deforestation Arc of Mato Grosso, Brazil
Zoonoses and Public Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Coronaviruses (CoV) are RNA viruses associated with enteric and respiratory diseases and known for their emergence potential in humans and other mammals. CoVs originate from zoonotic transmission, in which bats are natural reservoirs. Previous studies suggest that CoV diversity is positively correlated with bat diversity, whereas anthropogenic
Matheus Augusto Calvano Cosentino +5 more
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Public Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Bacteria of the order Rickettsiales comprise a diverse group of obligate intracellular microorganisms that are globally distributed and highly prevalent in tropical and subtropical regions. In South America, these bacteria have been associated with arthropod vectors, such as ticks, fleas, mites, lice, and certain dipterans, as well as with a ...
Cristian J. Zamorano‐Gómez +3 more
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Retention and losses of ultraviolet-sensitive visual pigments in bats
Scientific Reports, 2018 Ultraviolet (UV)-sensitive visual pigment and its corresponding ability for UV vision was retained in early mammals from their common ancestry with sauropsids.
Longfei Li +6 more
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The macroecology of immunity: predominant influence of climate on invertebrate immune response
Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 4, April 2026.The immune system is the primary defense against parasites. With the ever‐increasing rate of disease, epidemiologic models considering geographic variation in immune responses could prove useful. Despite increasing interest in the macroecology of parasitism and infectious diseases, we know little about the macroecology of immune responses (i.e ...
Adam Z. Hasik +9 more
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Human Rabies and Rabies in Vampire and Nonvampire Bat Species, Southeastern Peru, 2007
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 After a human rabies outbreak in southeastern Peru, we collected bats to estimate the prevalence of rabies in various species. Among 165 bats from 6 genera and 10 species, 10.3% were antibody positive; antibody prevalence was similar in vampire and ...
Gabriela Salmón-Mulanovich +16 more
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Bioecological Drivers of Rabies Virus Circulation in a Neotropical Bat Community. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016 INTRODUCTION:In addition to the commonly accepted importance of the vampire bat in the maintenance and transmission of the rabies virus (RABV) in South America, RABV infection of other species is widely evidenced, challenging their role in the viral ...
Benoit de Thoisy +12 more
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Automating the analysis of public saliency and attitudes toward biodiversity from digital media
Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract Measuring public attitudes toward wildlife provides crucial insights into human relationships with nature and helps monitor progress toward Global Biodiversity Framework targets. Yet, conducting such assessments at a global scale presents challenges.
Noah Giebink +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 studied in a number of lineages, ranging from fleas to leeches. However, the vampire bat (Desmondus
Rahini Kakumanu +8 more
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