"Dead bats present a health hazard as they may still be infectious with Australian
bat lyssavirus. The health advice for anyone cleaning up dead bats is ideally they should have had a full course of vaccination for rabies, they should wear adequate personal protective equipment and use a shovel, rather than using their hands," he said.
Now Public Health England says a dead serotine bat at an undisclosed location in Dorset was infected with European
Bat Lyssavirus 1.
The genus Lyssavirus includes fourteen species which are classified by their genomic sequence; they are the RABV Lagos bat virus (LBV), Mokola virus (MOKV), Duvenhage virus (DUVV), European
bat lyssavirus type 1 (EBLV1), European
bat lyssavirus type 2 (EBLV2), Australian
bat lyssavirus (ABLV), Aravan virus (ARAV) and Khujand virus (KHUV), Irkut virus (IRKV), West Caucasian bat virus (WCBV), Bokeloh
bat lyssavirus (BBLV), Ikoma Lyssavirus (IKOV) and Shimoni bat virus (SHIBV).
Australian
bat lyssavirus infection: a second human case, with a long incubation period.
The zoonotic diseases Australian
Bat Lyssavirus and Hendra virus both require close contact with bats, or horses infected from bats, respectively.
There are 14 recognized species in the genus Lyssavirus: rabies virus (RABV), Lagos bat virus, Mokola virus (MOKV), Duvenhage virus, European
bat lyssavirus types 1 and 2, Australian
bat lyssavirus (ABLV), Aravan virus (ARAV), Khujand virus, Irkut virus, Shimoni bat virus, Bokeloh
bat lyssavirus, West Caucasian bat virus, and Ikoma lyssavirus (IKOV) (1).
Susceptibility of sheep to European
bat lyssavirus type-1 and -2 infection: A clinical pathogenesis study.
Additionally, 38 homologous sequences recovered from GenBank were included in the phylogenetic trees of the N and G genes (29 and none, respectively) and European
bat Lyssavirus 1 (another specie in the Lyssavirus) was used as an outgroup.
O genero Lyssavirus inclui 11 especies conhecidas (Tabela 1), e 11 genotipos identificados ate o momento, consistindo no virus classico da raiva (RABV, genotipo 1), Lagos bat virus (LBV, genotipo 2), Mokola virus (MOKV, genotipo 3), Duvenhage virus (DUVV, genotipo 4), European
bat lyssavirus (EBLV-1, genotipo 5), European
bat lyssavirus (EBLV-2, genotipo 6), e Australian
bat lyssavirus (ABLV, genotipo 7).
Phylogroup I comprises the worldwide serotype 1 [classical rabies virus and Australian
Bat Lyssavirus (ABL)] (28), (29), serotype 4 (Duvenhage virus), serotype 5 [European
Bat Lyssavirus 1 (EBL-1)] and serotype 6 [European
Bat Lyssavirus 2 (EBL-2)] (30), (31).