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Carter Lab's research featured in Ohio State News

September 29, 2022

Carter Lab's research featured in Ohio State News

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Vampire bats infected with the rabies virus aren’t likely to act stereotypically “rabid,” according to a new study from the Carter Lab. The study, published recently in Biology Letters, was led by co-first authors Sebastian Stockmaier, an Ohio State University President’s Postdoctoral Scholar in Gerry Carter’s lab, and Elsa Cárdenas-Canales, then a PhD student and now a postdoctoral scholar in pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. EEOB Assistant professor and senior author of the study, Gerry Carter, said in the roost, vampire bats might infect each other through the licking and chewing that constitute the grooming behavior they engage in for up to 5% of their active time. Read the entire story on the Ohio State News site.