New rabies virus variant found during an epizootic in white-nosed coatis from the Yucatan Peninsula

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 138, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1586-1589

  Arechiga Ceballos N ^a,b   Velasco Villa, A ^c   Shi, M ^c,d   Flores Chavez S ^e   Barron B ^b   Cuevas Domnguez, E ^f   Gonzlez Origel, A ^f   Aguilar Setien A ^a  

^a Hospital de Pediatra   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^f Secretara Del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Insectivorous bats; outbreak; rabies; white nosed coatis

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAT; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MEXICO; NASUA NARICA; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROCYONIDAE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS GENE; WHITE NOSED COATIS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MEXICO; MICE; PHYLOGENY; PROCYONIDAE; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 77957299714     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268810000762     Document Type: Article

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