Professional paper

Rabies in Carnivora and bats in the Republic of Croatia

Ivana Šimić orcid.org/0000-0002-7816-3534 ; Hrvatski veterinarski institut Zagreb, Hrvatska
Nina Krešić ; Hrvatski veterinarski institut Zagreb, Hrvatska
Ivana Lojkić orcid.org/0000-0003-1559-9020 ; Hrvatski veterinarski institut Zagreb, Hrvatska
Tomislav Bedeković ; Hrvatski veterinarski institut Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

Rabies is an ancient, major zoonosis with the highest mortality of any known infectious agent that continues to cause considerable human illness and death. The animal species in which these viruses are maintained are restricted to the order Chiroptera (bats) and Carnivora. In Croatia, the virus was maintained in a population of red fox. After starting the oral vaccination of foxes (2011), the last rabies positive case was confirmed in February 2014. Unlike in red fox, the data on rabies (and other viruses) in bats is very limited. During 2016, a national project financed by Croatian Science Foundation was started. The main goal of the project is to establish the presence of rabies and other zoonotic viruses in bats by applying virological, serological and molecular methods.

Keywords

rabies; red foxes; bars; BatsRabTrack

Hrčak ID:

222034

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/222034

Publication date:

16.3.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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