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Phylogeny of Lagos bat virus: challenges for lyssavirus taxonomy.
Virus research - 1 Jul 2008
Markotter W, Kuzmin I, Rupprecht C E, Nel L H
Abstract excerpt
Lagos bat virus (LBV) belongs to genotype 2 of the Lyssavirus genus. The complete nucleoprotein (N), phosphoprotein (P), matrixprotein (M) and glycoprotein (G) genes of 13 LBV isolates were sequenced and phylogenetically compared with other lyssavirus representatives. The results identified three different lineages of LBV. One of these lineages demonstrated sufficient sequence diversity to be considered a new...
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