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. 2013 Sep 6;142(6):1155–1166. doi: 10.1017/S0950268813002185

Table 3.

Comparison of previous serosurveillance studies conducted in Europe with the study from Germany using different modified versions of virus neutralization assays (modified after Schatz et al. [6])

Spain UK Slovenia Belgium Switzerland France Sweden Germany
Cut-off value >1:27 (>1:5) >1:27 unknown unknown >1:25 (>1:125) >1:27 unknown not defined
Bat species N pos pos in % N pos pos in % N pos pos in % N pos pos in % N pos pos in % N pos pos in % N pos pos in % N pos pos in %
Unspecified 216 0 0
B. barbastellus 2 1 9·5–90·5 36 18 50
E. isabellinus 626 51 9
E. nilssonii 47 0 0
E. serotinus 274* 0–74 299 1 0·001–1·6 17 0 0 28 7 11·4–45·2 174 29 16·7
Mi. schreibersii 168 6 3·6 17 2 2·1–37·7
M. alcathoe
M. bechsteinii 3 0 0
M. blythii 23 0 0 5 1 1·0–70·1
M. blythii/myotis 11 2 3·2–52·2
M. brandtii
M. capaccinii 3 0 0
M. daubentonii 1427 13–31 0·05–4·1 124 3 2·4 17 0 0 77 8 10·4
M. dasycneme
M. emarginatus 16 0 0 16 0
M. myotis 666 233 35 8 2 25 47 0 0 37 5 5·1–29·6 231 23 10
M. mystacinus 2 0 0
M. nattereri 1 0 0 20 0 0 8 2 25 3 0 0 23 8 34·8
N. leisleri 106 7 6·6
N. noctula 14 0 0 627 47 7·5
P. kuhlii 1 0 0 1 0 0
P. nathusii 5 3 60
P. pipistrellus 234 0 0 6 0 0 6 0 0
P. pygmaeus
Pl. auritus 5 0 0
Pl. austriacus 12 0 0 13 0 0 14 11 78·6
Plecotus spp. 8 1 13
R. euryale 16 0 0
R. ferrumeqinum 58 2 3·4 10 1 0·5–45·9
R. hipposideros 16 0 0 1 0 0
T. teniotis 34 2 5·9
References [19, 20, 22, 23] [17, 18, 49] [27] [30] [25] [19] [26] This study

* Originally described as E. serotinus [22], according to present knowledge on the phylogeography of genus Eptesicus in Europe, these results could be attributed to E. isabellinus.