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. 2022 Mar 3;16(3):e0010160.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0010160. eCollection 2022 Mar.

From dogs to bats: Concerns regarding vampire bat-borne rabies in Brazil

Marco Aurélio Horta  1 , Leandro Augusto Ledesma  2 , Wlamir Correa Moura  3 , Elba Regina Sampaio Lemos  4
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From dogs to bats: Concerns regarding vampire bat-borne rabies in Brazil

Marco Aurélio Horta et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. .
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Fig 1. Human rabies cases following exposure to dogs, cats, bats, and other wild carnivore host species in Brazil.
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