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Risk for rabies transmission from encounters with bats, Colorado, 1977-1996.

To assess the risk for rabies transmission to humans by bats, we analyzed the prevalence of rabies in bats that encountered humans from 1977 to 1996 and characterized the bat-human encounters. Rabies was diagnosed in 685 (15%) of 4,470 bats tested. The prevalence of rabies in bats that bit humans wa...

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Autores principales: Pape, W J, Fitzsimmons, T D, Hoffman, R E
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1999
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10341181
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description To assess the risk for rabies transmission to humans by bats, we analyzed the prevalence of rabies in bats that encountered humans from 1977 to 1996 and characterized the bat-human encounters. Rabies was diagnosed in 685 (15%) of 4,470 bats tested. The prevalence of rabies in bats that bit humans was 2.1 times higher than in bats that did not bite humans. At least a third of the encounters were preventable.
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spelling pubmed-26407872009-05-20 Risk for rabies transmission from encounters with bats, Colorado, 1977-1996. Pape, W J Fitzsimmons, T D Hoffman, R E Emerg Infect Dis Research Article To assess the risk for rabies transmission to humans by bats, we analyzed the prevalence of rabies in bats that encountered humans from 1977 to 1996 and characterized the bat-human encounters. Rabies was diagnosed in 685 (15%) of 4,470 bats tested. The prevalence of rabies in bats that bit humans was 2.1 times higher than in bats that did not bite humans. At least a third of the encounters were preventable. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1999 /pmc/articles/PMC2640787/ /pubmed/10341181 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Pape, W J
Fitzsimmons, T D
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title Risk for rabies transmission from encounters with bats, Colorado, 1977-1996.
title_full Risk for rabies transmission from encounters with bats, Colorado, 1977-1996.
title_fullStr Risk for rabies transmission from encounters with bats, Colorado, 1977-1996.
title_full_unstemmed Risk for rabies transmission from encounters with bats, Colorado, 1977-1996.
title_short Risk for rabies transmission from encounters with bats, Colorado, 1977-1996.
title_sort risk for rabies transmission from encounters with bats, colorado, 1977-1996.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10341181
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