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.