| neotropical primary bat cell lines show restricted dengue virus replication. | dengue is the most widespread arboviral disease affecting humans. bats are recognized carriers of emerging viral zoonoses and have been proposed as dengue reservoirs, since rna/ns1 and/or antiviral antibodies have been detected. yet, experimental inoculation of artibeus bats failed to show virus replication. this conflicting results prevent drawing further conclusions of whether bats sustain dengue infection. to test bat cellular permissivity to dengue infection, we established primary bat embry ... | 2017 | 28131369 |
| current knowledge and ecological and human impact variables involved in the distribution of the dengue virus by bats in the americas. | dengue fever, caused by the dengue virus (denv), is one of the most important reemerging viral diseases transmitted by arthropods worldwide. denv is maintained in nature in two transmission cycles: urban and sylvatic. the latter has only been recorded in africa and asia and involves nonhuman primates as natural hosts, although it has been suggested that other mammals may play a secondary role as potential reservoir host, including bats. the objective of this article is to review the current stat ... | 2021 | 33439764 |
| hematological survey of common neotropical bat species from costa rica. | although bats are one of the largest groups within the class mammalia and may carry several zoonotic diseases, basic information about their hematology is limited. in this study, hematocrit (hct), total white blood cell counts (twbc; leukocytes), and differential white blood cell counts (dwbc) of free-ranging neotropical bats were quantified. blood samples from 255 bats representing 26 species from the families of emballonuridae (3 species; 33 individuals), molossidae (2 species; 26 individuals) ... | 2011 | 22950309 |
| high manoeuvring costs force narrow-winged molossid bats to forage in open space. | molossid bats are specialised aerial-hawkers that, like their diurnal ecological counterparts, swallows and swifts, hunt for insects in open spaces. the long and narrow wings of molossids are considered energetically adapted to fast flight between resource patches, but less suited for manoeuvring in more confined spaces, such as between tree-tops or in forest gaps. to understand whether a potential increase in metabolic costs of manoeuvring excludes molossids from foraging in more confined space ... | 2012 | 22048527 |