| isolation of irkut virus from a murina leucogaster bat in china. | bats are recognized as a major reservoir of lyssaviruses; however, no bat lyssavirus has been isolated in asia except for aravan and khujand virus in central asia. all chinese lyssavirus isolates in previous reports have been of species rabies virus, mainly from dogs. following at least two recent bat-associated human rabies-like cases in northeast china, we have initiated a study of the prevalence of lyssaviruses in bats in jilin province and their public health implications. a bat lyssavirus h ... | 2013 | 23505588 |
| molecular detection and genotypic characterization of toxoplasma gondii infection in bats in four provinces of china. | toxoplasma gondii is an intracellular protozoan parasite that infects a wide variety of warm-blooded hosts, including humans. limited information about t. gondii infection in bats is available in china. the objective of the present study was to determine prevalence and genetic characterization of t. gondii infection in bats in jilin, liaoning, jiangxi and guangdong provinces, china. | 2014 | 25465220 |