Lack of association between ectoparasite intensities and rabies virus neutralizing antibody seroprevalence in wild big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus), Fort Collins, Colorado

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 489-495

  Pearce, Roger D ^a   O'Shea, Thomas J ^a   Shankar, Vidya ^a,b   Rupprecht, Charles E ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

AIC; Big brown bat; Cimex; Ectoparasite serology; Eptesicus fuscus; Rabies virus; Spinturnix; Steatonyssus

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CIMEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPARASITE; EVALUATION RESEARCH; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES VIRUS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; SPINTURNIX; STEATONYSSUS; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BEDBUGS; CHIROPTERA; COLORADO; COMORBIDITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITES; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

CIMEX; CIMEX PILOSELLUS; EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; RABIES VIRUS; SPINTURNIX;

EID: 37549034197     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2007.0572     Document Type: Article

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