{"id":2148,"date":"2018-10-11T17:13:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T00:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T22:05:27","slug":"new-paper-bat-rabies-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/new-paper-bat-rabies-in-washington-state\/","title":{"rendered":"New Paper! Bat rabies in Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with the Washington Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control, we\u00a0 just published a <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0205069\"><strong>new paper<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>investigating spatial and temporal trends in rabies prevalence among Washington bats. We found that the highest number of positive rabies cases occur between July and August. We also found that <em>how<\/em> bats are encountered is significantly associated with rabies positivity. For example, dogs are more likely to catch a rabid bat than cats;\u00a0 additionally, bats found outdoors are more likely to test positive for rabies than bats found inside a house.<\/p>\n<p>We also found that rabies prevalence varied among species, ranging between 2-11% positive. However, because some species (e.g., <em>Myotis <\/em>spp<em>.<\/em>) look nearly identical, they are\u00a0 commonly misidentified. This suggests that genetic barcoding may be necessary to accurately assess species-specific patterns.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2150\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/new-paper-bat-rabies-in-washington-state\/temporal-rabies-trends\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2150\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2150\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Temporal-rabies-trends-1024x617.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Temporal-rabies-trends-1024x617.png 1024w, http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Temporal-rabies-trends-300x181.png 300w, http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Temporal-rabies-trends-768x463.png 768w, http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Temporal-rabies-trends.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seasonal trends in the number of bat submitted for rabies testing in Washington State and how many test positive.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with the Washington Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control, we\u00a0 just published a new paper\u00a0investigating spatial and temporal trends in rabies prevalence among Washington bats. We found that the highest number of positive rabies cases occur between July and August. We also found that how bats are encountered is significantly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}