Study of selected pathogens in populations of insectivorous bats

The project was focused on environmental investigations aimed at detecting the current epizootiological situation in the occurrence of causative agents of infectious and parasitic diseases. The bats were captured using the method of the " netting “ in out of hibernation period and onset of lactation. In the obtained blood samples or blood sera were not detected specific EBL antibodies. The presence of Microsporidia spp., Encephalitozoon hellem and Enterocytozoon bieneusi were proved by Real-Time PCR method. 223 mites of the genus Spinturnix, ticks Ixodes verspertilionis, mites Steatonyssus occidentalis; keds of the Nycteribiidae family from diptera and also the fleas (Ischnopsyllus intermedius) were obtained from the captured bats. We have isolated the genus Eimeria and the eggs of tapeworms from Hymenolepididae family from the bats droppings. In the monitoring of winter sites of bats we did not detect the presence of P. destructans.