KOZHIKODE: Prof. Stephen Luby, the Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine) at Stanford University in the United States, has said Pteropus genus fruit bat hosts the Nipah ...

Species sampled and DNA extraction. Individuals of three species from the genus Pteropus were analysed. These species are P. scapulatus, P. alecto and P. poliocephalus.Genomic DNA was extracted ...

The rectal anaerobic and aerobic bacterial flora of four species of flying foxes were determined and compared. Four bacterial species were found in ≥1 individual from each bat species at a significant ...