Transmisión del virus de la rabia entre murciélagos urbanos del departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia, 1999-2008

Núñez, Constanza; Páez, Andrés; Hernández, Constanza; Escobar, Humberto Ferrer; Bonelo, Anilza

doi:10.1016/s0123-9392(12)70054-1

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“…Se le ha reportado en desvanes y grietas paralelas a fachadas de edificios, y en el interior de construcciones voluminosas, como puentes, bodegas, entre otros (Alberico et al, 2005). Esta especie puede ser portadora de virus como la rabia en Colombia (Núñez et al, 2012), por lo que deben tenerse consideraciones de manejo especiales para evitar situaciones de riesgo zoonótico.…”

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Edificios usados como refugios por murciélagos en un campus universitario del piedemonte llanero de Colombia

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Algunos murciélagos ocupan ambientes altamente modificados por los humanos, y en Colombia poco sabemos sobre su historia natural en ambientes urbanos. Por ello estudiamos los edificios utilizados por murciélagos como refugios en un campus universitario en Villavicencio, Meta, piedemonte llanero colombiano. Medimos la altura al sitio de percha, cobertura del dosel y distancia al poste de luz más cercano para cada refugio. Identificamos 13 edificios con 15 refugios; siete usados por Saccopteryx leptura, cuatro por Carollia perspicillata, tres por Molossus molossus, y dos por Phyllostomus elongatus. En un caso, M. molossus y C. perspicillata compartieron refugio. La altura al sitio de percha, cobertura del dosel y distancia a postes de luz fue considerablemente variable entre refugios. Los refugios se encontraron entre 1.83-13.5 m de altura, y coberturas de dosel y distancia a postes entre 22.75-87.5%, y 3.5-39.92 m, respectivamente. El número de individuos en los refugios de S. leptura se correlacionó positivamente con la distancia al poste de luz más cercano y la altura del sitio de percha. Así, esas características de los refugios artificiales parecen relacionarse con su calidad para S. leptura. Sugerimos evitar los refugios en sitios de trabajo cercanos a personas, para reducir conflictos entre humanos y murciélagos en el campus por la posibilidad de transmisión de enfermedades. También sugerimos evaluar el uso de refugios artificiales, e.g., cajas para murciélagos, como alternativas a los edificios para mantener los servicios ecosistémicos brindados por los murciélagos en el campus.

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Edificios usados como refugios por murciélagos en un campus universitario del piedemonte llanero de Colombia

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“…In 2015, in Colombia, the Anger virus was spread via bats. The proposed reason for spread was linked to deforestation and the modification of ecological niches due to urban habitation (34). HTLV4 spread in 2014 due to the evolution of retroviruses via gorillas (35).…”

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Emerging Infectious Diseases - A Perspective

Jayakumar

Suresh

Peter

2020

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Infectious diseases continue to impose unpredictable burdens on global health and economies. Therefore, this has become a concern, even in terms of national security. In this sense, the objective of the present article was to review the role of wild animals as reservoirs and/or dispersers of etiological agents of human infectious diseases in order to compile data on the main wild animals and etiological agents involved in zoonotic outbreaks. The zoonotic threat of these etiological agents and the impact on public health can be enormous as shown by the ongoing epidemic of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019- nCoV) infections. Keywords: Infection, Emerging, Virus, Epedimiology, Pandemic, COVID

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“…These species of haematophagous bats are involved in the transmission of rabies in the tropics. In Colombia, like other countries in the Caribbean, Central America and South America, the majority of cases of human rabies transmitted by haematophagous bats have been associated with D. rotundus [ 16 ].…”

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“…Regarding the occurrence of the rabies virus in non-hematophagous bats, there have only been two previous studies in Colombia one in 1968 in San Vicente de Chucurí (Santander) in the low tropic of Magdalena River, a rabies virus was found in Carollia perspicillata [ 25 ]. The second one was reported in 2012 in the Western area of the country (Cali) in urban bats Molossus molossu s and Eptesicus brasilensis [ 16 ]. In Cordoba and Sucre departments, there are no ecoepidemiological studies on the circulation of the rabies virus in non-hematophagous bats.…”

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Frugivorous bats in the Colombian Caribbean region are reservoirs of the rabies virus

Calderón

Guzmán

Mattar

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Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob

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BackgroundBats are an important ecological group within ecosystems. The rabies virus is a Lyssavirus, and haematophagous bats are the principal reservoir; however, the virus has also been detected in non-haematophagous bats. The objective was to determine the rabies virus in non-haematophagous bats in the Colombian Caribbean region.MethodsIn 2017, a cross-sectional study was carried out with a base-risk sampling in twelve geographic zones of the Colombian Caribbean area that included the main ecosystems of two departments. 286 bats were captured, which were euthanized with a pharmacological treatment following the ethical protocols of animal experimentation. The taxonomic identification was done with dichotomous keys. The necropsy was carried out at the capture site, and brain samples were kept in liquid nitrogen. The extraction of the RNA was carried out from the frozen brains with Trizol™; a fragment of 914 bp of the glycoprotein G of the rabies virus was amplified with RT-PCR. The amplicons were sequenced with the Sanger method.ResultsTwenty-three genera of bats were identified, and, in two frugivorous, Artibeus lituratus and Artibeus planirostris, amplicons were obtained and sequenced as the rabies virus.ConclusionsThis is the first evidence of natural infection of the rabies virus in frugivorous bats in the Colombian Caribbean area; this result is important for the surveillance and control of rabies.

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Transmisión del virus de la rabia entre murciélagos urbanos del departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia, 1999-2008

Cited by 10 publications

References 28 publications

Edificios usados como refugios por murciélagos en un campus universitario del piedemonte llanero de Colombia

Edificios usados como refugios por murciélagos en un campus universitario del piedemonte llanero de Colombia

Emerging Infectious Diseases - A Perspective

Frugivorous bats in the Colombian Caribbean region are reservoirs of the rabies virus

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