Prevalence of neutralizing antibodies to rabies virus in serum of seven species of insectivorous bats from Colorado and New Mexico, United States

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 367-374

  Bowen, Richard A ^a   O'Shea, Thomas J ^b   Shankar, Vidya ^a,c   Neubaum, Melissa A ^a   Neubaum, Daniel J ^a   Rupprecht, Charles E ^c  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Bats; Chiroptera; Colorado; New mexico; Rabies; Serology; Virus neutralizing antibodies

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BAT; BLOOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; SALIVA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHIROPTERA; COLORADO; FEMALE; MALE; NEW MEXICO; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SALIVA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CHIROPTERA; EPTESICUS; EPTESICUS FUSCUS; LASIONYCTERIS; LASIONYCTERIS NOCTIVAGANS; LASIURUS CINEREUS; MYOTIS EVOTIS; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; MYOTIS THYSANODES; MYOTIS VOLANS; RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 84876050606     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/2012-05-124     Document Type: Article

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