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A history estimate and evolutionary analysis of rabies virus variants in China.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Mar 2010
Ming Pinggang, Yan Jiaxin, Rayner Simon, Meng Shengli, Xu Gelin, Tang Qing, Wu Jie, Luo Jing, Yang Xiaoming
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the evolutionary dynamics of rabies virus (RABV) in China, we collected and sequenced 55 isolates sampled from 14 Chinese provinces over the last 40 years and performed a coalescent-based analysis of the G gene. This revealed that the RABV currently circulating in China is composed of three main groups. Bayesian coalescent analysis estimated the date of the most recent common ancestor for the...
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