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. 2009 Aug;15(8):1308-10.
doi: 10.3201/eid1508.081522.

Human rabies and rabies in vampire and nonvampire bat species, Southeastern Peru, 2007

Gabriela Salmón-Mulanovich  1 , Alicia Vásquez, Christian Albújar, Carolina Guevara, V Alberto Laguna-Torres, Milagros Salazar, Hernan Zamalloa, Marcia Cáceres, Jorge Gómez-Benavides, Victor Pacheco, Carlos Contreras, Tadeusz Kochel, Michael Niezgoda, Felix R Jackson, Andres Velasco-Villa, Charles Rupprecht, Joel M Montgomery
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Human rabies and rabies in vampire and nonvampire bat species, Southeastern Peru, 2007

Gabriela Salmón-Mulanovich et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Aug.

Abstract

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 nonvampire bats. Thus, nonvampire bats may also be a source for human rabies in Peru.

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