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Molecular and geographic analyses of vampire bat-transmitted cattle rabies in central Brazil.
BMC veterinary research - 5 Nov 2008
Kobayashi Yuki, Sato Go, Mochizuki Nobuyuki, Hirano Shinji, Itou Takuya, Carvalho Adolorata A B, Albas Avelino, Santos Hamilton P, Ito Fumio H, Sakai Takeo
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BACKGROUND: Vampire bats are important rabies virus vectors, causing critical problems in both the livestock industry and public health sector in Latin America. In order to assess the epidemiological characteristics of vampire bat-transmitted rabies, the authors conducted phylogenetic and geographical analyses using sequence data of a large number of cattle rabies isolates collected from a wide geographical area...
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