Human rabies transmitted by vampire bats: Antigenic and genetic characterization of rabies virus isolates from the Amazon region (Brazil and Ecuador)

Virus Research

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 100-105

  Castilho, Juliana Galera ^a   Carnieli, Pedro ^a   Durymanova, Ekaterina A ^a   Fahl, Willian de Oliveira ^a   Oliveira, Rafael de Novaes ^a   Macedo, Carla Isabel ^a   Travassos da Rosa, Elizabeth Salbe ^b   Mantilla, Anibal ^c   Carrieri, Maria Luiza ^a   Kotait, Ivanete ^a  

^a Instituto Pasteur de Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^c Animal Health Laboratories   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Brazil; Ecuador; Human; Rabies; Vampire bat

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BAT; BRAZIL; ECUADOR; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES VIRUS; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHIROPTERA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECUADOR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

DESMODUS ROTUNDUS; RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 77956229373     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2010.07.012     Document Type: Article

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