Figure 1.
Map showing federal states of Germany (a) and geographical origin of all bat specimens coming from Schleswig-Holstein (SH, N = 362); Bremen (HB, N = 4), Hamburg (HH, N = 10), Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (MWP, N = 131), Lower Saxony (LS, N = 1252), Berlin (B, N = 484), Brandenburg (BRB, N = 644), Saxony-Anhalt (ST, N = 692), Saxony (SN, N = 247), North Rhine Westphalia (NRW, N = 76), Hesse (HE, N = 89), Thuringia (TH, N = 296), Rhineland-Palatinate (RP, N = 108), Saarland (SL, N = 53), Baden-Wuerttemberg (BW, N = 736), Bavaria (BY, N = 252) (b) and of E. serotinus (c) collected in the study described here, and of the bat rabies cases (dot (N = 46): E. serotinus, triangle (N = 3): M. daubentonii, square (N = 3): P. pipistrellus, P. nathusii and Pl. auritus (d).
Table 1.
Number of bat samples per species investigated using FAT, RTCIT, RT-qPCR and RT-PCR.
Figure 2.
Evolutionary relationships of EBLV-1 (a) and EBLV-2 strains (b) with a focus on 400 nucleotides long N-gene sequences (nt positions 1–400, numbering according to EF157976) derived from this study (boldface).
The Neighbor-Joining method (p-distance, 1000 pseudoreplicates) as implemented in MEGA 5 was used. Sequence number 998 LS represents the identical sequences 959, 5300, 5304, 7471, 7467, 11647, 15730, 16902, 16908, 18720, 21836, 24525, 24529, 24832, 25495, 31054.
Figure 3.
Number of bat specimens tested (N = 3714, black) and rabies cases (N = 46, grey) per month during 1998 until June 2013.