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SUBMITTER: Schatz J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4006713 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20140501 5
In Germany, rabies in bats is a notifiable zoonotic disease, which is caused by European bat lyssaviruses type 1 and 2 (EBLV-1 and 2), and the recently discovered new lyssavirus species Bokeloh bat lyssavirus (BBLV). As the understanding of bat rabies in insectivorous bat species is limited, in addition to routine bat rabies diagnosis, an enhanced passive surveillance study, i.e. the retrospective investigation of dead bats that had not been tested for rabies, was initiated in 1998 to study the ...[more]