Effects of culling vampire bats on the spatial spread and spillover of rabies virus

M Viana, JA Benavides, A Broos, D Ibañez Loayza… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Controlling pathogen circulation in wildlife reservoirs is notoriously challenging. In Latin
America, vampire bats have been culled for decades in hopes of mitigating lethal rabies …

Rabies transmitted from vampires to cattle: An overview

D Soler-Tovar, LE Escobar - PloS one, 2025 - journals.plos.org
Rabies is a zoonotic infectious disease of global distribution that impacts human and animal
health. In rural Latin America, rabies negatively impacts food security and the economy due …

Advances in understanding bat infection dynamics across biological scales

CA Sánchez, KL Phelps, HK Frank… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Over the past two decades, research on bat-associated microbes such as viruses, bacteria
and fungi has dramatically increased. Here, we synthesize themes from a conference …

Mapping the heterogeneous removal landscape of wastewater virome in effluents of different advanced wastewater treatment systems of swine farm

J Xing, H Gao, G Liu, X Cao, J Zhong, S Xu, Y Li… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
In advanced wastewater treatment plants on pig farms, meticulous design aims to eliminate
intrinsic pollutants such as organic matter, heavy metals, and biological contaminants. In our …

Mapping the Spatiotemporal Distribution of Bovine Rabies in Colombia, 2005–2019

DK Bonilla-Aldana, SD Jimenez-Diaz… - Tropical medicine and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Introduction: Rabies is caused by a virus belonging to the genus Lyssavirus and family
Rhabdoviridae, which can infect any mammal including humans. Hematophagous …

A meta‐analysis exploring associations between habitat degradation and Neotropical bat virus prevalence and seroprevalence

AM Heckley, LR Lock, DJ Becker - Ecography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat degradation can increase zoonotic disease risks by altering infection dynamics in
wildlife and increasing wildlife–human interactions. Bats are an important taxonomic group …

Demographic and zoological drivers of infectome diversity in companion cats with ascites

Y Sun, J Xing, S Xu, Y Li, J Zhong, H Gao, S Cheng… - Msystems, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Cats (Felidae) have become an integral part of many households. However, our
understanding of the full spectrum of pathogens affecting cats (referred to as the infectome) …

DNA barcoding and new records of Ornithodoros yumatensis from Central Mexico

E Grostieta, CI Miranda-Caballero… - Veterinary Research …, 2023 - Springer
Bats represent the second order of mammals with the highest number of species worldwide
with over 1,616 species, and almost 10% of them are recorded in Mexico. These mammals …

High risk of bat bites in an indigenous village in Brazil: Warning of the re-emergence of rabies among the Maxakali People

DST Júnior - Acta Tropica, 2024 - Elsevier
Bat-mediated human rabies is a viral zoonotic disease that poses a serious threat to the
public health of traditional peoples, especially indigenous populations that maintain …

Spatial-temporal risk factors in the occurrence of rabies in Mexico

R Ortega-Sánchez, I Bárcenas-Reyes… - Geospatial …, 2024 - geospatialhealth.net
Rabies is a zoonotic disease that affects livestock worldwide. The distribution of rabies is
highly correlated with the distribution of the vampire bat Desmodus rotundus, the main …