Ecology and geography of transmission of two bat-borne rabies lineages in Chile.

Rabies was known to humans as a disease thousands of years ago. In America, insectivorous bats are natural reservoirs of rabies virus. The bat species Tadarida brasiliensis and Lasiurus cinereus, with their respective, host-specific rabies virus variants AgV4 and AgV6, are the principal rabies reser...

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Main Authors: Luis E Escobar, A Townsend Peterson, Myriam Favi, Verónica Yung, Daniel J Pons, Gonzalo Medina-Vogel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24349592/?tool=EBI