

These findings were elucidated by analyzing a high conserved nucleoprotein gene. The geographical distributions of vampire bat-transmitted rabies virus variants are delimited by mountain chains.

Vampire bat related rabies harms both livestock industry and public health sector in central Brazil. © 2017, Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP. The feeding on wild and domestic prey by Desmodus rotundus in the same locality may favor the transmission of rabies to populations of wild mammals, as well as to domestic animals, and may represent an economic and public health issue with negative effects also for wildlife. Previous records were in the Pantanal (Brazil) and in the Amazon rainforest (Ecuador). The record here reported represents the first documented attack of Desmodus rotundus on Tapirus terrestris in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and one of the first records in the South America as a whole. But in these cases the attacks occurred from the scapular region of the prey. In the same reserve, there were also two events of bat offensives on domesticated ox (Bos sp.).

The bat tried to access the Lowland Tapir by the posterior dorsolateral side of the body, and used the mean stratum of the vegetation as a point of support and observation between the consecutive offensives on the prey. Santo, southeastern Brazil, from camera trap records. In this study we report evidences of Common Vampire Bat feeding on Lowland Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in a protected area located in the north of the state of Espírito. The species is considered exclusively hematophagous, and medium and large-sized mammals are their main prey. There are few studies on the diet of Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus), despite its wide geographic distribution. XVI, pretendemos analisar não somente algumas questões pertinentes a História da nomenclatura, morfologia e etologia dos morcegos americanos, mas também traçarmos um estudo histórico sanitário desta espécie, hoje conhecida como um dos maiores vetores do vírus rábico. Tomando como base as informações contidas nos relatos e descrições de viajantes, colonizadores e evangelizadores do Velho Mundo que se aventuraram na América do séc. Neste contexto, um mamífero em especial será objeto de vários relatos: o morcego hematófago. colonizers and missionaries from the Old World that ventured into XVI century America, we intend to analyze not only issues related to the history of the naming, morphology and etiology of the American bat but we will also trace a historical sanitary study of this species known today as one of the biggest retainers of the hydrophobia virus.Ī chegada do europeu ao Novo Mundo irá revelar não somente o contato com novas etnias ou fontes de renda uma biota completamente desconhecida se revelará nos relatos de praticamente todos os viajantes que se aventuraram na América quinhentista. Based upon information contained in the reports and descriptions of the travelers. In this context, a mammal will be the object of various reports the blood-eating bat. The arrival of the Europeans in the New World will reveal not only the contact with new cultures or new riches a completely unknown species will be revealed in the reports of practically all the travelers that came to America. We can conclude that the relationship between abundancy of vampire bats and frequency of cattle attacked is positive. Positive correlation was found between 1) Abundancy of vampire bats and number of cattle in the region, 2) Total number of cattle and number of cattle attacked, and 3) Abundancy of vampire bats and number of cattle attacked. Greater abundancy of vampire bats and number of cattle attacked were observed in the central region of Yucatan, particularly in Izamal municipality. Data from January 2014 to December 2017 was analyzed using Pearson correlation and bat abundancy and number of bovines attacked distribution maps. The study used data gathered by the State Committee for Protection and Promotion of Livestock in Yucatan through the National Campaign for Vampire Bat Population Control. rotundus abundancy and number of bovines attacked in livestock landscapes in Yucatan. This study’s objective was to analyze the relationship between D. one of the seven most impacted States in Mexico by the number of cattle rabies cases per year, however, there is little research on vampire bat populations and attacks to cattle frequency patterns has never been analyzed so far. Because vampire bats have caused economic losses to livestock production by feeding from these and other mammals and being the main rabies virus transmitter for cattle, population control campaigns have been implemented in Mexico. Desmodus rotundus is one of the wild animal species that has benefitted by habitat alteration and its population has increased due to livestock activities.
