Molecular characterization of rabies virus isolated from dogs in Tunisia: Evidence of two phylogenetic variants

Virus Research

Volumn 158, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 246-250

  Amouri, Imen Khlif ^a   Kharmachi, Habib ^a   Djebbi, Ahlem ^a   Saadi, Mohamed ^a   Hogga, Nahed ^a   Zakour, Lotfi Ben ^a   Ghram, Abdeljelil ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Genotypes; Lineage; Lyssavirus

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ALGERIA; ARTICLE; DOG; ETHIOPIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOROCCO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOPROTEIN GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; SUDAN; TUNISIA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS GENE;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUNISIA; VIRAL PROTEINS;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; LYSSAVIRUS; RABIES VIRUS;

EID: 79956306318     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: 18727492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2010.10.015     Document Type: Article

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