Ecological determinants of rabies virus dynamics in vampire bats and spillover to livestock
| Autor: | Diana K. Meza, Nardus Mollentze, Alice Broos, Carlos Tello, William Valderrama, Sergio Recuenco, Jorge E. Carrera, Carlos Shiva, Nestor Falcon, Mafalda Viana, Daniel G. Streicker |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Livestock
General Immunology and Microbiology Rabies wildlife General Medicine Desmodus rotundus General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology zoonoses Rabies virus Seroepidemiologic Studies Chiroptera Animals Humans metapopulation maintenance General Agricultural and Biological Sciences eco-immunology General Environmental Science |
| ISSN: | 0962-8452 |
| Popis: | The pathogen transmission dynamics in bat reservoirs underpin efforts to reduce risks to human health and enhance bat conservation, but are notoriously challenging to resolve. For vampire bat rabies, the geographical scale of enzootic cycles, whether environmental factors modulate baseline risk, and how within-host processes affect population-level dynamics remain unresolved. We studied patterns of rabies exposure using an 11-year, spatially replicated sero-survey of 3709 Peruvian vampire bats and co-occurring outbreaks in livestock. Seroprevalence was correlated among nearby sites but fluctuated asynchronously at larger distances. A generalized additive mixed model confirmed spatially compartmentalized transmission cycles, but no effects of bat demography or environmental context on seroprevalence. Among 427 recaptured bats, we observed long-term survival following rabies exposure and antibody waning, supporting hypotheses that immunological mechanisms influence viral maintenance. Finally, seroprevalence in bats was only weakly correlated with outbreaks in livestock, reinforcing the challenge of spillover prediction even with extensive data. Together our results suggest that rabies maintenance requires transmission among multiple, nearby bat colonies which may be facilitated by waning of protective immunity. However, the likelihood of incursions and dynamics of transmission within bat colonies appear largely independent of bat ecology. The implications of these results for spillover anticipation and controlling transmission at the source are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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