Abstract
The order Chiroptera (bats) is the second largest among mammals on the planet, after rodents, harboring more than 1,300 species. Brazil is home to about 15% of all the diversity of bat species on the planet, with a large part of the populations present in the Amazon biome. Bats can host a wide variety of viruses and act as reservoirs of infection that can spill over to humans, as was the …