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Extended incubation period of rabies virus in a captive big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus)
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
|April 12, 2012
Abstract:
Rabies virus incubation in bats is typically less than 180 days, yet longer incubation periods have been described. We report a 267-day incubation in a big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) exposed to rabies virus before entering our captive colony.

