Serologic evidence of lyssavirus infection in bats, Cambodia

Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 Dec;10(12):2231-4. doi: 10.3201/eid1012.040459.

Abstract

In Cambodia, 1,303 bats of 16 species were tested for lyssavirus. No lyssavirus nucleocapsid was detected in 1,283 brains tested by immunofluorescence assay. Antibodies against lyssaviruses were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in 144 (14.7%) of 981 serum samples. Thirty of 187 serum samples contained neutralizing antibodies against different lyssaviruses.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Viral / blood
  • Cambodia / epidemiology
  • Chiroptera / immunology
  • Chiroptera / virology*
  • Lyssavirus / immunology
  • Lyssavirus / isolation & purification*
  • Rhabdoviridae Infections / epidemiology
  • Rhabdoviridae Infections / immunology
  • Rhabdoviridae Infections / veterinary*
  • Seroepidemiologic Studies

Substances

  • Antibodies, Viral