Epidemiology of vampire bat-transmitted rabies virus in Goias, central Brazil: re-evaluation based on G-L intergenic region.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vampire bat related rabies harms both livestock industry and public health sector in central Brazil. The geographical distributions of vampire bat-transmitted rabies virus variants are delimited by mountain chains. These findings were elucidated by analyzing a high conserved nucleoprotein gene. This study aims to elucidate the detailed epidemiological characters of vampire bat-transmitted rabies virus by phylogenetic methods based on 619-nt sequence including unconserved G-L intergenic region.

Findings

The vampire bat-transmitted rabies virus isolates divided into 8 phylogenetic lineages in the previous nucleoprotein gene analysis were divided into 10 phylogenetic lineages with significant bootstrap values. The distributions of most variants were reconfirmed to be

SUBMITTER: Hirano S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2993726 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature