Isolation of rabies virus from bats in Bolivia.
Rabies virus was isolated from apparently normal blood-sucking (Desmodus rotundus) and insectivorous (Artibeus planirostris) bats caught in Bolivia. The virus was identified by immunofluorescence, biological and sero-neutralisation tests.
D000818:Animals; D001838:Bolivia; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000382:microbiology*; D051379:Mice; D011820:Rabies virus / Q000302:isolation & purification*