Table 1.
Details of passive bat rabies surveillance. Numbers of animals investigated per species and federal state. Lyssavirus-positive cases are indicated (in brackets). All viruses were characterized as EBLV-1, except for one case in the Natterer’s bat. Abbreviations for German federal states: Baden-Wuerttemberg (BW), Bavaria (BY), Berlin (BE), Brandenburg (BB), Hesse (HE), Lower Saxony (NI), Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (MV), Northrhine-Westphalia (NW), Saxony-Anhalt (ST), Saxony (SN).
| Species | BB | BE | BW | BY | HE | MV | NI | NW | SN | ST | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbastella barbastellus | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| Eptesicus nilssonii | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| Eptesicus serotinus | 22 (1) | 35 (6) | 1 | 2 | 22 (6) | 5 (1) | 9(1) | 96 (15) | |||
| Myotis ssp. | 7 | 7 | |||||||||
| Myotis bechsteinii | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Myotis brandtii | 3 | 28 | 31 | ||||||||
| Myotis daubentonii | 4 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 33 | ||||
| Myotis myotis | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 12 | ||||
| Myotis mystacinus | 2 | 8 | 1 | 32 | 2 | 45 | |||||
| Myotis nattereri | 8 | 4 | 1 | 12 (1) # | 2 | 3 | 31 (1) | ||||
| Nyctalus ssp. | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Nyctalus leisleri | 2 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 16 | ||||||
| Nyctalus noctula | 22 | 35 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 89 | |||
| Pipistrellus kuhlii | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Pipistrellus nathusii | 7 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 38 | |||
| Pipistrellus pipistrellus | 52 | 152 | 73 | 1 | 44 | 2 | 251 | 28 | 22 | 625 | |
| Pipistrellus pygmaeus | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 15 | ||||||
| Plecotus ssp. | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Plecotus auritus | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 31 | |||
| Plecotus austriacus | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||||||
| Vespertilio murinus | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 31 | |||
| unspecified | 4 | 8 | 64 | 5 | 32 | 1 | 3 | 117 | |||
| total | 145 (1) | 252 (6) | 167 | 1 | 72 | 8 | 463 (7) | 2 | 75 (1) | 50 (1) | 1236 (16) |
# Characterized as BBLV.