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Rabies in wild and domestic carnivores of Africa: epidemiological and historical associations determined by limited sequence analysis.
The Onderstepoort journal of veterinary research - 1 Dec 1993
Smith J S, Yager P A, Orciari L A
Abstract excerpt
Virus isolates from three important reservoirs for rabies in Africa (domestic dogs, jackals and yellow mongooses) were compared by their reaction with a panel of monoclonal antibodies directed to the nucleocapsid protein and by the nucleotide sequence of a 200 base pair segment of the nucleocapsid gene. Although antigenically dissimilar, the variants commonly transmitted in dogs and jackals were very closely...
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