Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding rabies and exposure to bats in two rural communities in Guatemala

BACKGROUND: Rabies is a fatal encephalitis caused by rabies virus, of the genus Lyssavirus. The principal reservoir for rabies in Latin America is the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus), which feeds routinely on the blood of cattle, and when livestock are scarce, may prey on other mammals, inclu...

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Autores principales: Moran, David, Juliao, Patricia, Alvarez, Danilo, Lindblade, Kim A, Ellison, James A, Gilbert, Amy T, Petersen, Brett, Rupprecht, Charles, Recuenco, Sergio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25576098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-014-0955-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25576098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-014-0955-1

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