VIROLOGICAL AND SEROLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF RABIES IN BATS FROM AN URBAN AREA IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON

The outbreaks of rabies in humans transmitted by Desmodus rotundus in 2004 and 2005, in the northeast of the Brazilian State of Para, eastern Amazon basin, made this a priority area for studies on this zoonosis. Given this, the present study provides data on this phenomenon in an urban context, in o...

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Main Authors: Rubens Souza de OLIVEIRA, Lanna Jamile Corrêa da COSTA, Fernanda Atanaena Gonçalves de ANDRADE, Wilson UIEDA, Luzia Fátima Alves MARTORELLI, Ana Paula de Arruda Geraldes KATAOKA, Elizabeth Salbé Travassos da ROSA, Pedro Fernando da Costa VASCONCELOS, Armando de Souza PEREIRA, Antônio Ismael Barros do CARMO, Marcus Emanuel Barroncas FERNANDES
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2015-12-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652015000600497&lng=en&tlng=en