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New rabies virus variant found during an epizootic in white-nosed coatis from the Yucatan Peninsula.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Nov 2010
Aréchiga-Ceballos N, Velasco-Villa A, Shi M, Flores-Chávez S, Barrón B, Cuevas-Domínguez E, González-Origel A, Aguilar-Setién A
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In February 2008, three white-nosed coatis (Nasua narica) were found dead in a recreational park in Cancun, Mexico. The diagnosis of rabies virus (RABV) infection was confirmed by direct immunofluorescence test. The phylogenetic analysis performed with the complete RABV nucleoprotein gene positioned this isolate close to a sequence of a human rabies case reported during 2008 from Oaxaca, Mexico, sharing 93%...
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