Volume 12, Number 3—March 2006
Dispatch
Lyssavirus Surveillance in Bats, Bangladesh
Ivan V. Kuzmin*
, Michael Niezgoda*, Darin S. Carroll*, Natalie Keeler*, Mohammed Jahangir Hossain†, Robert F. Breiman†, Thomas G. Ksiazek*, and Charles E. Rupprecht*
, Michael Niezgoda*, Darin S. Carroll*, Natalie Keeler*, Mohammed Jahangir Hossain†, Robert F. Breiman†, Thomas G. Ksiazek*, and Charles E. Rupprecht*Table
Samples of bats captured in Bangladesh and subjected to lyssavirus diagnosis, isolation, and antibody detection*
| Species | Brains |
Sera |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFAT and MIT | DFAT only | 1:20† | 1:50 | |
| Pteropus giganteus | 37 | 97 | 123 | 4 |
| Cynopterus sphinx | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| Macroglossus sobrinus | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Rousettus leshenaulti | 0 | 46 | 11 | 0 |
| Megaderma lyra | 47 | 2 | 24 | 23 |
| Pipistrellus sp. | 85 | 0 | 24 | 37 |
| Scotophilus heathii | 30 | 0 | 15 | 12 |
| S. kuhlii | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Taphozous saccolaimus | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
*DFAT, direct fluorescent antibody test; MIT, mouse inoculation test.
†Starting dilutions available for rapid fluorescent focus inhibition test.
