Volume 8, Number 4—April 2002
Research
European Bat Lyssavirus Infection in Spanish Bat Populations
Jordi Serra-Cobo*
, Blanca Amengual†, Carlos Abellán‡, and Hervé Bourhy†
, Blanca Amengual†, Carlos Abellán‡, and Hervé Bourhy†Table 1
Number of bat samples analyzed per species, 1992–2000a
| Species | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R. ferrumequinum | 8 | 9/3 | 11/1 | 30/3 | 58/7 | |||||
| R. euryale | 6 | 10 | 16 | |||||||
| R. hipposideros | 16 | 0/1 | 16/1 | |||||||
| P. pipistrellus | 61 | 64 | 75 | 18 | 13/5 | 0/16 | 0/14 | 3/15 | 234/50 | |
| P. kulhii | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| E. serotinus | 21 | 44 | 33/1 | 1 | 99/1 | |||||
| M. myotis | 1 | 63 | 65/2 | 44 | 29/2 | 58/8 | 35/3 | 295/15 | ||
| M. blythi | 20 | 1 | 2 | 23 | ||||||
| M. nattereri | 1 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 1/2 | ||||||
| M. capaccinii | 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| M. emarginatus | 9 | 7/2 | 16/2 | |||||||
| P. austriacus | 3 | 6 | 2/4 | 1 | 12/4 | |||||
| M. schreibersii | 8 | 18 | 14 | 8 | 9/2 | 70/6 | 41/1 | 168/9 | ||
| T. teniotis | 22 | 12 | 34 | |||||||
| Total | 90 | 118 | 123 | 148/1 | 127/11 | 83/22 | 38/19 | 143/30 | 106/8 | 976/91 |
aWhere fractions (x/y) are shown, the numerator (x) corresponds to the number of sera analyzed and the denominator (y) to the number of brains analyzed.
E = Eptesicus; M = Myotis; P = Plecotus; R = Rhinolophus; T = Tadarida.
