Badilla Xiomara, Pérez-Herra Victor, Quirós Ligia, Morice Ana, Jiménez Edwin, Sáenz Elizabeth, Salazar Fernando, Fernández Rodrigo, Orciari Lillian, Yager Pamela, Whitfield Sylvia, Rupprecht Charles E
Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), San José, Costa Rica.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 Jun;9(6):721-3. doi: 10.3201/eid0906.020632.
Two human rabies cases caused by a bat-associated virus variant were identified in September 2001 in Costa Rica, after a 31-year absence of the disease in humans. Both patients lived in a rural area where cattle had a high risk for bat bites, but neither person had a definitive history of being bitten by a rabid animal. Characterization of the rabies viruses from the patients showed that the reservoir was the hematophagous Vampire Bat, Desmodus rotundus, and that a sick cat was the vector.
2001年9月，在人类狂犬病已绝迹31年后，哥斯达黎加确认了两例由蝙蝠相关病毒变种引起的人类狂犬病病例。两名患者均居住在农村地区，当地牛群遭受蝙蝠叮咬的风险很高，但两人均无被狂犬病动物咬伤的确切病史。对患者狂犬病病毒的特征分析表明，病毒宿主是吸血蝙蝠（圆叶吸血蝠），传播媒介是一只病猫。
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