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 2
Positive serologic results in bat populations, the Spanish Autonomous Regions of Balearic Islands and Aragon, 1995–2000
| Location and coordinates | Variables analyzed | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1 | A/Ba | - | - | 1/5 | - | 0/11 | 1/20 | ||
| X±SDb | - | - | 515 | - | - | 34 | |||
| 39°58’N,3°58’E | Speciesc | Rf | Rf | Rf | Rf | Rf | Rf | ||
| No. 3 | A/Ba | 1/34 | 0/31 | ||||||
| X±SDb | 215 | ||||||||
| 39°58’N,3°59’E | Speciesc | Ms | Ms | Ms | Ms | Ms | Ms | ||
| No. 4 | A/Ba | 1/30 | 16/27 | 11/27 | 7/22 | 3/30 | 3/29 | ||
| X±SDb | 90 | 348±237 | 191±225 | 718±657 | 78±27 | 58±42 | |||
| 39°44’N,2°58’E | Range | 49–908 | 29-783 | 79-1677 | 47-95 | 29–107 | |||
| Speciesc | Mm | Mm | Mm | Mm | Mm | Mm | |||
| No. 5 | A/Ba | 7/21 | 7/32 | 3/17 | 0/6 | 3/7 | 1/8 | 5/28 | 0/6 |
| X±SDb | 122±45 | 207±159 | 218±136 | 412±454 | 8,508 | 106±61 | |||
| 39°25’N,2°55’E | Range | 83-195 | 53-442 | 129-374 | 87-930 | 29-176 | |||
| Speciesc | Mm | Mm | Mm | Ms | Mm | Ms | Mm | Mm | |
| No. 6 | A/Ba | 0/22 | 2/12 | ||||||
| X±SDb | 243±284 | ||||||||
| 41°01’N,0°39’W | Range | 420-444 | |||||||
| Speciesc | Tt | Tt | Tt | Tt | Tt | Tt | |||
| No. 7 | A/Ba | 2/14 | 2/19 | ||||||
| X±SDb | 93±68 | 35±6 | |||||||
| 39°50’N,3°00’E | Range | 45-141 | 31-40 | ||||||
| Speciesc | Ms | Ms | Ms | Ms | Ms | Ms | |||
aA = no. bats positive, B = no. bats analyzed.
bX = seroneutralization average; SD = standard deviation.
cSpecies analyzed: Rf = Rhinolophus ferrumequinum; Ms = Miniopterus schreibersii; Mm = Myotis myotis; Tt = Tadarida teniotis.
