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. 2004 May;10(5):948-52.
doi: 10.3201/eid1005.030719.

Bat rabies, Texas, 1996-2000

Rodney E Rohde  1 , Bonny C Mayes, Jean S Smith, Susan U Neill
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Bat rabies, Texas, 1996-2000

Rodney E Rohde et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 May.

Abstract

Bats submitted to the Texas Department of Health (1996-2000) were speciated and tested for rabies virus antigen by direct immunofluorescence microscopy. Antigenic analysis of rabies virus-positive specimens was performed with monoclonal antibodies against the nucleoprotein of the virus; atypical or unexpected results were confirmed by genetic analysis of nucleoprotein sequence.

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Genetic lineages of rabies virus in Texas bat populations. Lineages were determined by using the unweighted pair group method using arithmetic averages (UPGMA) method on the basis of 302 nucleotides of nucleoprotein gene sequence. Bootstrap values of 1,000 replicates indicate the robustness of the corresponding node. Representatives of each lineage were deposited in GenBank under the following accession numbers: 31, AF394876; 26, AY039224; 24, AF394886; 23, AF394883; 22, AY170247; 29, AY208163; 28, AF394878; 9, AY208164; 5, AY208165; 1, AF394887.
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