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• Rabies and another bat-associated viruses.

The group of the National Center of Microbiology is officially recognized as na-

tional reference laboratory for several zoonoses, including rabies in humans and
suspected animals. Additionally to this official activity, the group currently keeps

research activity in the following aspects.

- Development and evaluation of diagnostic methodologies for rabies.

- Molecular Epidemiology of canine rabies in Ceuta and Melilla.

- Epidemiology and pathogenesis of bat rabies.

- Search of new potentially emergent viruses in bats.

- Efficiency of rabies vaccines.

• Neurological Diseases of viral etiology. Etiology of meningitis and encephalitis
in Spain.

• Polyomavirus disease in the immune-compromised. é

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Most relevant • ArcHigA cebAllos n, Vázquez Morón s, berciAno JM, nicolás o, AznAr lópez c, Juste J.
Novel lyssavirus in bat, Spain.Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 May;19(5):793-5.
scientific
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articles
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tection of rhabdovirus viral RNA in oropharyngeal swabs and ectoparasites of Spanish
bats.J Gen Virol. 2013 Jan;94(Pt 1):69-75.

• o F, A A, e Je, s-s Mp, t g, c M. Viral infec-
De ryVellncHeVArríAáncHezecorAlleroAbrerizo
tions of the central nervous system in Spain: a prospective study.J Med Virol. 2013
Mar;85(3):554-62.

• eriKsen J, DAViDKin i, KAFAtos g, AnDreWs n, bArbArA c, coHen D. Seroepidemiology
of mumps in Europe (1996-2008): why do outbreaks occur in highly vaccinated

populations?Epidemiol Infect. 2013 Mar;141(3):651-66.

• scHAtz J, FooKs Ar, McelHinney l, Horton D, ecHeVArriA J, Vázquez-Moron s et Al.. Bat
rabies surveillance in Europe.Zoonoses Public Health. 2013 Feb;60(1):22-34.

Highlights
During year 2013, the group started to work in a collaborative project funded by
the special program for health research of the Spanish government, about meas-

les, mumps and rubella. This has been done under the subprogram of vaccine pre-

ventable diseases. The program of transmissible diseases has agreed to dedicate
the activity of a contracted researcher specifically to the development of this par-

ticular project. In fact, a first publication about mumps has been already publis-
hed as a result of this work complementing the international study about mumps

sero-epidemiology published in 2013. Moreover, the group has participated in co-

llaborative studies about pertussis in the frame of projects leaded by other groups
of the program. Several relevant studies about rabies have been published during 13
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2013. New rhabdoviruses, one of them a lyssavirus, are described in Spain in two T
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of them. The group also participated on reviews about surveillance of rabies in P
Europe together with the most relevant groups in the Continent. It has also par- RE
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ticipated in the revision of the current protocols for rabies prevention in domestic A
animals and for actuation on animal bites. This revision has been made as a result NU
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of the epidemiological alert of imported rabies in June. These studies has been A
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complemented with other on the etiology of viral meningitis and encephalitis in S
Spain in the frame of another project finished the year before. Finally, a colla- RE
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borative publication on flu has been published as a part of past CIBER projects .
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