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. 2017 Jun 19;7(1):1332935. doi: 10.1080/20008686.2017.1332935

Table 1.

Bat species and bat numbers per parish testing positive for rabies virus antigen (dFAT), rabies virus genomic RNA (RT-PCR) and rabies virus neutralizing antibodies (FAVN).

  dFAT
RT-PCR
Serology (FAVN)
  Total no. Total no. Total no. St George St David St John St Mark St Patrick St Andrew
A. jamaicensis 0/52 0/52 8/52 (15.4%) 0/8 0/7 3/19 2/11 1/3 2/4
M. molossus 0/33 0/33 0/33 0/3 0/8 0/0 0/4 0/12 0/6
G. longirostris 0/24 0/24 0/24 0/5 0/5 0/0 0/3 0/4 0/7
A. lituratus 0/2 0/2 0/2 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/0 0/0
Total no. 0/111 0/111 8/111 (7.2%) 0/17 0/20 3/19 2/19 1/19 2/17

dFAT (direct fluorescent antibody test); RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction).