Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

European Bat Lyssavirus Infection in Spanish Bat Populations

Jordi Serra-Cobo*

, Blanca Amengual†, Carlos Abellán‡, and Hervé Bourhy†

Author affiliations: *Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; †Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; ‡Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Madrid, Spain;

Specificity of results from serologic studies of bat populations, Spanish Autonomous Regions of Balearic Islands and Aragon, 1995–2000^a

Location	Species	CVS	EBL1	EBL2
No. 1	Rhinolophus ferrumequinum	0 0	51 <27	ND ND
No. 4	Myotis myotis	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	588 222 350 246 709 <27 537 95	<27 <27 <27 <27 <27 ND <27 <27
No. 5	M. myotis	0 ND 0 0	53 421 97 188	<27 <27 <27 <27

No. 6	Tadarida teniotis	0 0 0	42 444 <27	ND ND ND

No. 7	Miniopterus schreibersii	0 0 0	45 141 <27	<27 <27 <27

	Rhinolophus euryale	0	<27	<27

^aND = not done; CVS = challenge virus strain; EBL1 = European bat lyssavirus 1.