Identification of viral RNA sequences in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) from central Mexico
Bats are important reservoirs of viral entities that cause diverse economical and health problems in several sectors. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of the rabies virus in vampire bats. We also tested for 3 other zoonotic viruses in the collected tissue. We captured 45 va...
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| author | Aldo Espinoza-Gómez Diana D. Moreno-Santillán Rafael Juárez-Maldonado Edgar G. Gutiérrez Ma. Isabel Salazar Luis A. Alonso-Palomares Juan Carlos López-Vidal Cinthia Elizalde-Arellano Jorge Ortega |
| author_facet | Aldo Espinoza-Gómez Diana D. Moreno-Santillán Rafael Juárez-Maldonado Edgar G. Gutiérrez Ma. Isabel Salazar Luis A. Alonso-Palomares Juan Carlos López-Vidal Cinthia Elizalde-Arellano Jorge Ortega |
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Bats are important reservoirs of viral entities that cause diverse economical and health problems in several sectors. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of the rabies virus in vampire bats. We also tested for 3 other zoonotic viruses in the collected tissue. We captured 45 vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus), which were measured and sexed under standard parameters. We followed an RT-PCR reaction to amplify the viral products of four virus types: chikungunya (CHIKV), dengue (DENV), rabies (RABV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) from cerebral tissue. We obtained an amplicon of 100 bp for ZIKV in 2 samples, representing a prevalence of 4.4%. An amplicon of 581 bp for RABV was observed in 9 individuals, which is equivalent to 20% of our sample. We obtained 4 different haplotypes for RABV and a single haplotype for ZIKV. We did not record the presence of DENV and CHIKV. We corroborated the presence of the family Rhabdoviridae in the vampire bat and recorded the presence of ZIKV for the first time in this bat species.
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| spelling | doaj-art-cdd0d5b7a25c4fa3a7340039c5fc07ff2025-08-20T01:49:22ZengUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoRevista Mexicana de Biodiversidad1870-34532007-87062022-10-019310.22201/ib.20078706e.2022.93.4021Identification of viral RNA sequences in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) from central MexicoAldo Espinoza-Gómez0Diana D. Moreno-Santillán1Rafael Juárez-Maldonado2Edgar G. Gutiérrez3Ma. Isabel Salazar4Luis A. Alonso-Palomares5Juan Carlos López-Vidal6Cinthia Elizalde-Arellano7Jorge Ortega8Instituto Politécnico NacionalTexas Tech UniversityInstituto Politécnico NacionalInstituto Politécnico NacionalInstituto Politécnico NacionalInstituto Politécnico NacionalInstituto Politécnico NacionalInstituto Politécnico NacionalInstituto Politécnico Nacional Bats are important reservoirs of viral entities that cause diverse economical and health problems in several sectors. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of the rabies virus in vampire bats. We also tested for 3 other zoonotic viruses in the collected tissue. We captured 45 vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus), which were measured and sexed under standard parameters. We followed an RT-PCR reaction to amplify the viral products of four virus types: chikungunya (CHIKV), dengue (DENV), rabies (RABV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) from cerebral tissue. We obtained an amplicon of 100 bp for ZIKV in 2 samples, representing a prevalence of 4.4%. An amplicon of 581 bp for RABV was observed in 9 individuals, which is equivalent to 20% of our sample. We obtained 4 different haplotypes for RABV and a single haplotype for ZIKV. We did not record the presence of DENV and CHIKV. We corroborated the presence of the family Rhabdoviridae in the vampire bat and recorded the presence of ZIKV for the first time in this bat species. https://revista.ib.unam.mx/index.php/bio/article/view/4021ChikungunyaDengueFlaviviridaeRabiesRhabdoviridaeVampire bat |
| spellingShingle | Aldo Espinoza-Gómez Diana D. Moreno-Santillán Rafael Juárez-Maldonado Edgar G. Gutiérrez Ma. Isabel Salazar Luis A. Alonso-Palomares Juan Carlos López-Vidal Cinthia Elizalde-Arellano Jorge Ortega Identification of viral RNA sequences in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) from central Mexico Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad Chikungunya Dengue Flaviviridae Rabies Rhabdoviridae Vampire bat |
| title | Identification of viral RNA sequences in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) from central Mexico |
| title_full | Identification of viral RNA sequences in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) from central Mexico |
| title_fullStr | Identification of viral RNA sequences in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) from central Mexico |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identification of viral RNA sequences in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) from central Mexico |
| title_short | Identification of viral RNA sequences in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) from central Mexico |
| title_sort | identification of viral rna sequences in vampire bats desmodus rotundus from central mexico |
| topic | Chikungunya Dengue Flaviviridae Rabies Rhabdoviridae Vampire bat |
| url | https://revista.ib.unam.mx/index.php/bio/article/view/4021 |
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