Active surveillance for antibodies confirms circulation of lyssaviruses in Palearctic bats

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62157124%3A16170%2F20%3A43879013" target="_blank" >RIV/62157124:16170/20:43879013 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/68081766:_____/20:00536436 RIV/00216224:14310/20:00117488 RIV/62157124:16270/20:43879013 RIV/62157124:16810/20:43879013

Result on the web

<a href="https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12917-020-02702-y" target="_blank" >https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12917-020-02702-y</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12917-020-02702-y" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12917-020-02702-y</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Active surveillance for antibodies confirms circulation of lyssaviruses in Palearctic bats

Original language description

Background: Palearctic bats host a diversity of lyssaviruses, though not the classical rabies virus (RABV). As surveillance for bat rabies over the Palearctic area covering Central and Eastern Europe and Siberian regions of Russia has been irregular, we lack data on geographic and seasonal patterns of the infection. Results: To address this, we undertook serological testing, using non-lethally sampled blood, on 1027 bats of 25 species in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and Slovenia between 2014 and 2018. The indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) detected rabies virus anti-glycoprotein antibodies in 33 bats, giving an overall seroprevalence of 3.2%. Bat species exceeding the seroconversion threshold included Myotis blythii, Myotis gracilis, Myotis petax, Myotis myotis, Murina hilgendorfi, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum and Vespertilio murinus. While Myotis species (84.8%) and adult females (48.5%) dominated in seropositive bats, juveniles of both sexes showed no difference in seroprevalence. Higher numbers tested positive when sampled during the active season (10.5%), as compared with the hibernation period (0.9%). Bat rabies seroprevalence was significantly higher in natural habitats (4.0%) compared with synanthropic roosts (1.2%). Importantly, in 2018, we recorded 73.1% seroprevalence in a cave containing a M. blythii maternity colony in the Altai Krai of Russia. Conclusions: Identification of such &quot;hotspots&quot; of non-RABV lyssavirus circulation not only provides important information for public health protection, it can also guide research activities aimed at more in-depth bat rabies studies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40301 - Veterinary science

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-20286S" target="_blank" >GA17-20286S: Physiology of bat hibernation with respect to multistressor impacts</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

BMC Veterinary Research

ISSN

1746-6148

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000599988800002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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