ArticleRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo
Bat-borne rabies in Latin America.
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- Influence of Host and Landscape-Associated Factors in the Infection and Transmission of Pathogens: The Case of Directly Transmitted Virus in Mammals.Veterinary medicine and science · 2025Pooled it
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- Evaluation of One Health approach measures implemented in response to the human rabies outbreak in the Maxakali Indigenous Land, Brazil.One health outlook · 2025Article
- Bat predation by domestic cats: A neglected rabies-risk in Ecuador.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
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- Rabies transmitted from vampires to cattle: An overview.PloS one · 2025Article
- Tick-borne viruses and their risk to public health in the Caribbean: Spotlight on bats as reservoirs in Cuba.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Revealing the complexity of vampire bat rabies "spillover transmission".Infectious diseases of poverty · 2023Article
- Rabies in Bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia) in Brazil: Prevalence and Potential Risk Factors Based on Twenty Years of Research in the Northwestern Region of São Paulo, Brazil.Veterinary sciences · 2023Article
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- Rabies in the Tropics.Current tropical medicine reports · 2022Review
- Rabies in Costa Rica - Next Steps Towards Controlling Bat-Borne Rabies After its Elimination in Dogs.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2021Review
- Using host traits to predict reservoir host species of rabies virus.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
- Detection of rabies viral neutralizing antibodies in the Puerto RicanInfection ecology & epidemiology · 2020Article
- Prevention of human rabies: a challenge for the European Union and the European Economic Area.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2020Article
- Risk Modeling of Bat Rabies in the Caribbean Islands.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2020Article
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Abstract
The situation of rabies in America is complex: rabies in dogs has decreased dramatically, but bats are increasingly recognized as natural reservoirs of other rabies variants. Here, bat species known to be rabies-positive with different antigenic variants, are summarized in relation to bat conservation status across Latin America. Rabies virus is widespread in Latin American bat species, 22.5%75 of bat species have been confirmed as rabies-positive. Most bat species found rabies positive are classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as "Least Concern". According to diet type, insectivorous bats had the most species known as rabies reservoirs, while in proportion hematophagous bats were the most important. Research at coarse spatial scales must strive to understand rabies ecology; basic information on distribution and population dynamics of many Latin American and Caribbean bat species is needed; and detailed information on effects of landscape change in driving bat-borne rabies outbreaks remains unassessed. Finally, integrated approaches including public health, ecology, and conservation biology are needed to understand and prevent emergent diseases in bats.
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