Active sero-survey for European bat lyssavirus type-1 circulation in North African insectivorous bats

Jordi Serra-Cobo; Marc López-Roig; Rachel Lavenir; Elbia Abdelatif; Wahida Boucekkine; Mehdi Elharrak; Bachir Harif; Sehhar El Ayachi; Akram Ahmed Salama; Mohamed A Nayel; Ahmed Elsify; Sameh G El Rashedy; Paola De Benedictis; Franco Mutinelli; Barbara Zecchin; Dino Scaravelli; Chokri Balhoul; Ahmed Zaghawa; Hany Youssef Hassan; Ahmed Hamed Zaghloul; Hervé Bourhy

doi:10.1038/s41426-018-0214-y

Active sero-survey for European bat lyssavirus type-1 circulation in North African insectivorous bats

Emerg Microbes Infect. 2018 Dec 13;7(1):213. doi: 10.1038/s41426-018-0214-y.

Authors

Jordi Serra-Cobo^{1

2}, Marc López-Roig^{3

4}, Rachel Lavenir⁵, Elbia Abdelatif⁶, Wahida Boucekkine⁷, Mehdi Elharrak⁸, Bachir Harif⁸, Sehhar El Ayachi⁹, Akram Ahmed Salama¹⁰, Mohamed A Nayel¹⁰, Ahmed Elsify¹⁰, Sameh G El Rashedy¹¹, Paola De Benedictis¹², Franco Mutinelli¹², Barbara Zecchin¹², Dino Scaravelli^{13

14}, Chokri Balhoul¹⁵, Ahmed Zaghawa¹⁰, Hany Youssef Hassan¹⁰, Ahmed Hamed Zaghloul¹⁶, Hervé Bourhy⁵

Affiliations

¹ IRBIO and Departement de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain. serracobo@areambiental.com.
² Centre de Recerca en Infeccions Víriques, Illes Balears (CRIVIB), Fundació d'Investigació Sanitària de les Illes Balears, Conselleria de Salut i Consum, Govern de les Illes Balears, Hospital General de Palma, 07012, Palma de Mallorca, Illes Balears, Spain. serracobo@areambiental.com.
³ IRBIO and Departement de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Centre de Recerca en Infeccions Víriques, Illes Balears (CRIVIB), Fundació d'Investigació Sanitària de les Illes Balears, Conselleria de Salut i Consum, Govern de les Illes Balears, Hospital General de Palma, 07012, Palma de Mallorca, Illes Balears, Spain.
⁵ Institut Pasteur, Unité Dynamique des Lyssavirus et Adaptation à l'Hôte, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Rabies, Paris Cedex 15, 75724, Paris, France.
⁶ Institut Pasteur d'Alger, 16047, Dély Ibrahim, Alger, Algeria.
⁷ Direction Générale des Forêts, Chemin Doudou Mokhtar Ben-Aknoun, B.P.232, 16306, Alger, Algeria.
⁸ Société de Produits biologiques et pharmaceutiques et vétérinaires (Biopharma), Km 2, Road of Casablanca, B.P, 4569, Rabat-Akkari, Morocco.
⁹ Département Ressources Naturelles et Environnement Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Madinat Al Irfane, B.P, 6202, Rabat, Morocco.
¹⁰ Department of Animal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sadat City, 32897, Sadat City, Minoufiya, Egypt.
¹¹ Department of Aquatic Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sadat City, 32897, Sadat City, Minoufiya, Egypt.
¹² FAO and National Reference Centre for rabies & OIE Collaborating Centre for diseases at the animal-human interface, Division of Biomedical Science, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, 35020, Legnaro, Italy.
¹³ S.T.E.R.N.A. & Museo Ornitologico "F. Foschi", 47121, Forlì, Italy.
¹⁴ Laboratory of Pathogens' Ecology, Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, 40064, Ozzano Emilia (Bo), Italy.
¹⁵ Institut Pasteur Tunis, Place Pasteur B.P. 74, 1002, Tunis, Belvédère, Tunisia.
¹⁶ Department of Theriogenology and Artificial Insemination, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sadat City, 32897, Sadat City, Minoufiya, Egypt.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Africa / epidemiology
Animals
Chiroptera / virology*
Lyssavirus / isolation & purification*
Rhabdoviridae Infections / blood
Rhabdoviridae Infections / epidemiology
Rhabdoviridae Infections / veterinary*
Serologic Tests

Supplementary concepts

European bat 1 lyssavirus