Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2023)

Naturally Acquired Rabies in White-Eared Opossum, Brazil

  • Eduardo Ferreira-Machado,
  • Juliana Amorim Conselheiro,
  • Bruno Emerson Bernardes da Silva,
  • Patricia Sayuri Silvestre Matsumoto,
  • Claúdio Luiz Castagna,
  • Aline Nitsche,
  • Celino Simão de Lima,
  • Douglas Presotto,
  • Madelline Christie Rodrigues Nunes da Silva,
  • Ticiana Brasil Ervedosa,
  • Pedro Enrique Navas-Suárez,
  • Ísis Paixão de Jesus,
  • Julia de Carvalho,
  • Rodrigo Albergaria Ressio,
  • Cinthya dos Santos Cirqueira,
  • Gisely Toledo Barone,
  • Leila del Castillo Saad,
  • Paulo Eduardo Brandão,
  • José Luiz Catão-Dias,
  • Juliana Mariotti Guerra,
  • Natália Coelho Couto de Azevedo Fernandes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2912.230373
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 12
pp. 2541 – 2545

Abstract

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Opossums are considered resistant to rabies. Nonhematophagous bats are reservoirs of rabies in urban areas of South America. We analyzed bats and opossums tested for rabies during 2021 in a highly urbanized city in Brazil to understand spillover in an urban setting. Wildlife surveillance is necessary to prevent rabies in humans and domestic animals.

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