| bat rabies in france: a 24-year retrospective epidemiological study. | since bat rabies surveillance was first implemented in france in 1989, 48 autochthonous rabies cases without human contamination have been reported using routine diagnosis methods. in this retrospective study, data on bats submitted for rabies testing were analysed in order to better understand the epidemiology of eblv-1 in bats in france and to investigate some epidemiological trends. of the 3176 bats submitted for rabies diagnosis from 1989 to 2013, 1.96% (48/2447 analysed) were diagnosed posi ... | 2014 | 24892287 |