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Molecular epidemiology of lyssaviruses in Eurasia.
Developments in biologicals - 1 Jan 2008
McElhinney L M, Marston D A, Stankov S, Tu C, Black C, Johnson N, Jiang Y, Tordo N, Müller T, Fooks A R
Abstract excerpt
The Lyssavirus genus, a member of the Rhabdoviridae family, consists of seven established related viruses (genotypes 1-7). Rabies cases in Eurasia are principally attributed to three of these genotypes, namely genotype 1 (RABV, classical rabies) and to a lesser extent genotypes 5 and 6 (European bat lyssaviruses type-1 and -2). In addition, four newly identified divergent lyssaviruses have been isolated from...
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