Lyssavirus surveillance in bats of southern China's Guangxi Province.
Virus Genes
; 46(2): 293-301, 2013 Apr.
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| ID: mdl-23197137
ABSTRACT
Although rabies virus is widely distributed in the world, and has been the subject of extensive investigations with the objective of its ultimate prevention, control, and management, there is much less knowledge of the characteristics, distribution, and infectivity of other lyssaviruses. Since bats are known animal vectors for all but one of the known lyssavirus genotypes, we have performed an extensive survey of bats in the Guangxi Province to provide information on lyssavirus distribution in southern China. The lyssavirus nucleoprotein gene was detected in brains of 2.86 % of 2,969 bats. Nucleotide sequence homologies among isolates were 86.9-99.6 %, but only 70.0-85.0 % for lyssaviruses in GenBank. These infected bats were detected from a wide area, essentially forming a band running from the south-west to the north-east of Guangxi, and it appears that infection by new lyssaviruses is widespread in this region.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Quirópteros
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Infecções por Rhabdoviridae
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Lyssavirus
Tipo de estudo:
Screening_studies
Limite:
Animals
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Virus Genes
Assunto da revista:
BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR
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VIROLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2013
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
China