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| Dacheux, L.; Larrous, F.; Mailles, A.; Boisseleau, D.; Delmas, O.; Biron, C.; Bouchier, C.; Capek, I.; Muller, M.; Ilari, F.; Lefranc, T.; Raffi, F.; Goudal, M.; Bourhy, H. | |
| European Bat Lyssavirus Transmission among Cats, Europe | |
| 2009 Emerging Infectious Diseases (15): 280-284 | |
Most countries in western Europe are currently free of rabies in terrestrial mammals, as was the case in France during 2001-2008 (_1_). However, rabies still remains a public health problem in these countries because of natural circulation of bat-specifi c viruses (order Mononegavirales family _Rhabdoviridae_, genus _Lyssavirus_) such as European bat lyssaviruses (EBLVs). These viruses are divided into genotypes 5 (EBLV-1) and 6 (EBLV-2); the fi rst genotype is subdivided into subtypes a and b (_2_). Knowledge of the prevalence and epidemiology of EBLV is limited (_2_-_5_). To date, natural transmission of EBLV-1 has been reported in a limited number of terrestrial mammals, including 5 sheep in Denmark (_6_) and 1 stone marten in Germany (_7_) (Table1). Since 1985, only 3 human deaths from EBLVs have been confi rmed (_3_) (Table 1). We describe 2 documented cases of spillover transmission of EBLV in domestic carnivores (cats, _Felis domesticus_) in Europe. |
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