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bat
see chiroptera.
Australian bat lyssavirus disease
a disease identified in 1996 in Australian fruit-eating flying foxes (Pteropus spp.) in which it is presumed endemic and in which it may cause encephalitis; the virus, of the genus Lyssavirus and the family Rhabdoviridae, has also caused fatal rabies-like illness in persons working closely with infected bats.
bat rabies
caused by rabies-like viruses which are antigenically similar to the classical rabies rhabdovirus. Bats also are common carriers of rabies virus transmitting it to other species and between themselves both by bite and by aerosol inhalation of urine. See also lagos and mokola viruses.
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Deforestation, development of human habitat, and mining activities have been suggested as risk factors associated with the reemergence of vampire bat rabies in humans in the Amazon Basin.
Wildlife, exotic pets, and emerging zoonoses (1) by Meslin, Francois-Xavier / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Previously documented clusters involving 3-4 to terrestrial mammals infected with a single insectivorous bat rabies virus variant did not corroborate sustained transmission (12).
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Laboratory investigation of human deaths from vampire bat rabies in Peru.
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