Article
Molecular diversity of rabies viruses associated with bats in Mexico and other countries of the Americas.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2006
Velasco-Villa Andrés, Orciari Lillian A, Juárez-Islas Víctor, Gómez-Sierra Mauricio, Padilla-Medina Irma, Flisser Ana, Souza Valeria, Castillo Amanda, Franka Richard, Escalante-Mañe Maribel, Sauri-González Isaias, Rupprecht Charles E
Abstract excerpt
Bat rabies and its transmission to humans and other species in Mexico were investigated. Eighty-nine samples obtained from rabid livestock, cats, dogs, and humans in Mexico were studied by antigenic typing and partial sequence analysis. Samples were further compared with enzootic rabies associated with different species of bats in the Americas. Patterns of nucleotide variation allowed the definition of at least...
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