Author Contributions:
TJL and RTJ conceived the research; TJL designed the research methodology, led project administration, collected the data, curated the data, analysed and visualised the data, and drafted the manuscript; PWW and JO provided resources; KMF acquired funding for the research and provided supervision; and all authors participated in review and editing of the manuscript. All authors have read the manuscript, agree that the work is ready for submission to a journal, and accept responsibility for the manuscript’s contents.
Competing Interests statement : The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Funding : This study was supported by funding by the Arkansas Biosciences Institute.
Ethical approval : All applicable institutional and/or national guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed. Bat fieldwork was conducted under permits from the National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (#NACOSTI/P/21/9267), and the Kenya Wildlife Service (#KWS/BRM/500 and WRTI/RP/118.6). Ethics approval was granted by the University of Nairobi Biosafety, Animal use and Ethics committee (H84/53146/2018), and under Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) protocol #22012, granted by the University of Arkansas Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Human ethics approval was conducted under the University of Arkansas Institutional Review Board protocol number 2103320918.