Abstract
The Laboratory of the Alta Sorocabana, Presidente Prudente, SP, Brazil, has been carrying out the laboratorial diagnosis of rabies since 1995, when it was accredited by the Ministry of Health. From that year until now, it has isolated the rabies virus from several species of non-hematophagous bats (frugivores and insectivores), which carry the majority of the antigenic variant 3 of the ba…