Gabriela Salmón-Mulanovich, Alicia Vásquez, Christian Albújar, Carolina Guevara, Alberto Laguna-Torres, Milagros Salazar, Hernan Zamalloa, Marcia Cáceres, Jorge Gómez-Benavides, Victor Pacheco, Carlos Contreras, Tadeusz Kochel, Michael Niezgoda, Felix R. Jackson, Andres Velasco-Villa, Charles E. Rupprecht, and Joel M. Montgomery
Author affiliations: US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima, Peru (G. Salmόn-Mulanovich, C. Albújar, C. Guevara, V.A. Laguna-Torres, T. Kochel. J.M. Montgomery); Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (G. Salmόn-Mulanovich); Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima (A. Vásquez, V. Pacheco); University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA (M. Salazar); Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima (H. Zamalloa); Dirección de Salud Madre de Dios, Puerto Maldonado, Peru (M. Cáceres, C. Contreras); Dirección General de Epidemiologia, Lima (J. Gómez-Benavides); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (M. Niezgoda, F.R. Jackson, A. Velasco-Villa, C. Rupprecht)
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Table 2
Rabies antibody prevalence, vampire and nonvampire bats, southeastern Peru, 2007*
| Variables |
No. positive/
no. sampled |
p value |
| Sex |
|
0.111 |
| F |
14/103 |
|
M
|
3/62
|
|
| Age |
|
0.078 |
| Subadult |
0/25 |
|
Adult
|
17/140
|
|
| Genera |
|
0.685 |
| Desmodus sp. |
1/7 |
|
| Carollia sp. |
12/125 |
|
Others
|
4/33
|
|
| Isolation location |
|
1.000 |
| A |
3/28 |
|
B
|
14/137
|
|
| Refuges and foraging areas† |
|
1.000 |
| Natural |
7/77 |
|
| Disturbed |
8/79 |
|
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