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1 October 2013 Antibodies against Duvenhage Virus in Insectivorous Bats in Swaziland
Wanda Markotter, Ara Monadjem, Louis H. Nel
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Abstract

Several rabies-related lyssaviruses have been associated with bat species in southern Africa, the rarest of these being Duvenhage virus (DUVV), for which only five isolations have been made over five decades. Three of these were from human fatalities, and it is not known which bat species acts as reservoir. In studying a population of Nycteris thebaica in the kingdom of Swaziland, a landlocked country bordering Mozambique and South Africa, we found evidence of the circulation of a lyssavirus. Virus-neutralization assays indicated DUVV-neutralizing antibodies in 30% of the sera collected from this population of N. thebaica, providing the first indication of a Duvenhage virus circulating in this particular species and the first evidence of a bat lyssavirus circulating in Swaziland bats.

Wildlife Disease Association 2013
Wanda Markotter, Ara Monadjem, and Louis H. Nel "Antibodies against Duvenhage Virus in Insectivorous Bats in Swaziland," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 49(4), 1000-1003, (1 October 2013). https://doi.org/10.7589/2012-10-257
Received: 15 October 2012; Accepted: 1 February 2013; Published: 1 October 2013
KEYWORDS
Duvenhage virus
insectivorous bat
Lyssavirus
Nycteris thebaica
rabies
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