AISLAMIENTO DE VIRUS RABICO DE MURCIELAGOS EN COLOMBIA, S. A

• Published in: Caldasia 1968-07, Vol.10 (47), p.167-172
• Main Authors: Morales-Alarcón, A., Osorno-Mesa, E., Bernal Cubides, C., Lleras Pizarro, A.
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Subjects: PARASITOLOGIA
• ISSN: 0366-5232; 2357-3759

Se intentó el aislamiento de virus rábico en 919 murciélagos, más 83 sin clasificar que no se incluyen en el cuadro, insectívoros y frugívoros procedentes de 3 zonas de Colombia. Las especies estudiadas fueron las siguientes: Carollia perspicillata, Myotis nigricans, Lasiurus ega, Artibeus lituratus palmarum, Vampyrops helleri, Trachops cirrhosus cirrhosus, Glossophaga longirostris, Saccopteryx bilineata, Molossus molossus, Peropteryx kappleri, Phyllostomus hastatus. No se encontró ningún ejemplar de murciélago hematófago. Virus rábico fue aislado de Myotis nigricans + Lasiurus ega en Pavarandocito, Antioquia, en donde la rabia paresiante estaba activa en el momento de la investigación; en San Vicente de Chucurí, Santander, se aisló virus rábico de un ejemplar, Carollia perspicillata, zona en donde no se ha presentado, hasta ahora, rabia paresiante. Ningún aislamiento de virus rábico se hizo en la Guajira en donde, en años anteriores, ha habido brotes de rabia paresiante. A total of 919 classified bats were tested in an effort to isolate rabies virus. The specimens studied belonged to insectivorous and frugivorous species. In addition, another 83 unclassified bats were also tested with negative results, and they are not included in this paper. The bats were distributed into eleven species as follows: Carollia perspicillata, Myotis nigricans, Lasiurus ega, Artibeus lituratus palmarum, Vampyrops helleri, Trachops cirrhosus cirrhosus, Glossophaga longirostris, Saccopteryx bilineata, Molossus molossus, Peropteryx kappleri, Phyllostomus hastatus. Rabies virus was isolated during 1966 from a group of bats composed of Myotis nigricans and Lasiurus ega caught at Pavarandocito, Antioquia, where paralytic rabies was causing severe losses of cattle. Rabies virus was recovered in 1964 from one specimen of Carollia perspicillata caught at San Vicente de Chucurí, Santander, where no cases of paralytic rabies have been reported. No isolations were obtained from bats coming from Guajira where paralytic rabies outbreaks occurred during recent years.