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Vampire bat rabies: ecology, epidemiology and control.
Review in Viruses, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 74 papers.
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74 citing papers in PubMed, 178 citations in OpenAlex.
- Rabies in Military Personnel: Epidemiology, Clinical Challenges, and Strategies for Prevention and Management.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2026Review
- Estimates of rabies risk from vampire bats to livestock in Colombia.Revista MVZ Cordoba · 2026Article
- Ecological insights into the cross-domain microbiome interactions in the hematophagous bat Desmodus rotundus.Animal microbiome · 2026Article
- Rabies, host population structure, and cross-species transmission to the migratory bat Tadarida brasiliensis in Chile.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Drivers of rabies virus spillover risk from vampire bats to livestock in Colombia.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- First Report of Paralytic Rabies in a Lowland Tapir (Viruses · 2025Article
- Anticoagulants for the Control of the Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus).Zoonoses and public health · 2025Review
- Uncovering selection pressures on the IRF gene family in bats' immune system.Immunogenetics · 2025Article
- Rabies transmitted from vampires to cattle: An overview.PloS one · 2025Article
- Bat Rabies in the Americas: IsViruses · 2024Article
- Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis to Prevent Hematophagous Bat-Mediated Rabies Outbreaks in Remote Amazon Communities: Lessons from a Pilot for Public Health Policy.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Article
- Detection and Serological Evidence of European Bat Lyssavirus 1 in Belgian Bats between 2016 and 2018.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Article
- Comparison of 4 laboratory tests for the detection of bovine rabies viral infection in Paraguay: fluorescent antibody test, rapid detection test, histologic lesions, and RT-PCR.Journal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc · 2024Article
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- Incorporating environmental heterogeneity and observation effort to predict host distribution and viral spillover from a bat reservoir.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Epidemiology and Control of Rabies in Cattle and Equines in Rondônia State, a Brazilian's Legal Amazon Area.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Genomic Characterization of Three NovelMicroorganisms · 2023Article
- Cat rabies in Brazil: a growing One Health concern.Frontiers in public health · 2023Review
- Rabies in a postpandemic world: resilient reservoirs, redoubtable riposte, recurrent roadblocks, and resolute recidivism.Animal diseases · 2023Review
- Ecological and Socioeconomic Factors in the Occurrence of Rabies: A Forgotten Scenario.Infectious disease reports · 2022Article
14 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
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. However, the oldest known association between a zoonotic virus and a bat is that between rabies virus and the vampire bat. Vampire bats are only found in Latin America and their unique method of obtaining nutrition, blood-feeding or haematophagy, has only evolved in the New World. The adaptations that enable blood-feeding also make the vampire bat highly effective at transmitting rabies virus. Whether the virus was present in pre-Columbian America or was introduced is much disputed, however, the introduction of Old World livestock and associated landscape modification, which continues to the present day, has enabled vampire bat populations to increase. This in turn has provided the conditions for rabies re-emergence to threaten both livestock and human populations as vampire bats target large mammals. This review considers the ecology of the vampire bat that make it such an efficient vector for rabies, the current status of vampire-transmitted rabies and the future prospects for spread by this virus and its control.
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