Experimental infection of Artibeus lituratus bats and no detection of Zika virus in neotropical bats from French Guyana, Peru, and Costa Rica, suggest a limited role of bats in Zika transmission.
A. Aguilar-Setien, M. Salas-Rojas, G. Galvez-Romero…·F. Drexler
This study experimentally infected bats and tested wild populations for Zika virus, finding no evidence of viral replication or neutralizing antibodies, suggesting bats are not efficient reservoirs for ZIKV.